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The '''Dolgopolsky list''' is a word list compiled by [[Aharon Dolgopolsky]] in 1964.<ref>Dolgopolsky, Aharon B. 1964. [https://cdstar.shh.mpg.de/bitstreams/EAEA0-F41D-6AB7-0B17-0/Dolgopolsky1964.pdf Gipoteza drevnejšego rodstva jazykovych semej Severnoj Evrazii s verojatnostej točky zrenija] [A probabilistic hypothesis concerning the oldest relationships among the language families of Northern Eurasia]. ''Voprosy Jazykoznanija'' 2: 53-63.</ref> It lists the 15 lexical items that have the most semantic stability, i.e. they are the 15 words least likely to be replaced |
The '''Dolgopolsky list''' is a word list compiled by [[Aharon Dolgopolsky]] in 1964 based on a study of 140 languages from across [[Eurasia]].<ref>Dolgopolsky, Aharon B. 1964. [https://cdstar.shh.mpg.de/bitstreams/EAEA0-F41D-6AB7-0B17-0/Dolgopolsky1964.pdf Gipoteza drevnejšego rodstva jazykovych semej Severnoj Evrazii s verojatnostej točky zrenija] [A probabilistic hypothesis concerning the oldest relationships among the language families of Northern Eurasia]. ''Voprosy Jazykoznanija'' 2: 53-63.</ref> It lists the 15 lexical items that he found have the most semantic stability, i.e. they are the 15 words least likely to be replaced. |
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The first item in the list, ''I/me'', has been replaced in none of the 140 languages |
The first item in the list, ''I/me'', has been replaced in none of the 140 languages during their recorded history; the fifteenth, ''dead'', has been replaced in 25% of the languages. The twelfth item, ''louse/nit'', is well kept in the [[North Caucasian languages]], Dravidian and Turkic, but not in some other proto-languages. |
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The twelfth item, ''louse/nit'', is well kept in the [[North Caucasian languages]], Dravidian and Turkic, but not in some other proto-languages. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 07:59, 21 October 2023
The Dolgopolsky list is a word list compiled by Aharon Dolgopolsky in 1964 based on a study of 140 languages from across Eurasia.[1] It lists the 15 lexical items that he found have the most semantic stability, i.e. they are the 15 words least likely to be replaced.
List
The words, with the first being the most stable, are:
- I/me
- two/pair
- you (singular, informal)
- who/what
- tongue
- name
- eye
- heart
- tooth
- no/not
- nail (finger-nail)
- louse/nit
- tear/teardrop
- water
- dead
The first item in the list, I/me, has been replaced in none of the 140 languages during their recorded history; the fifteenth, dead, has been replaced in 25% of the languages. The twelfth item, louse/nit, is well kept in the North Caucasian languages, Dravidian and Turkic, but not in some other proto-languages.
See also
References
- ^ Dolgopolsky, Aharon B. 1964. Gipoteza drevnejšego rodstva jazykovych semej Severnoj Evrazii s verojatnostej točky zrenija [A probabilistic hypothesis concerning the oldest relationships among the language families of Northern Eurasia]. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2: 53-63.
- Trask, Robert Lawrence (2000). The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. p. 96.