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- Title
COMPARISON OF VARIOUS QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF PROXIMITY OF LANGUAGES: NORTH CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES.
- Authors
Ildarovich, Galeev Timur; Dmitrievich, Solovyev Valery
- Abstract
A comparison of North Caucasian languages is performed in the article according to various measures of proximity constructed using grammatical, lexical and genetic databases. Statistical methods are applied to the study of correlations among these proximity measures, and also between them and both geographical proximity and genealogical kinship. A full correlation has been found among language kinship, geographic situation and genetic kinship of peoples. Also, a high correlation was found between each of them and lexical similarity. In general these correlations persist at different levels - starting at the whole set of studied languages until the level of the smallest groups of related languages. It is shown that a significant factor in the analysis of geographical situation is the existence of a common boundary between the regions of distribution of languages.
- Publication
Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art & Communication, 2017, Vol 7, p184
- ISSN
2146-5193
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7456/1070ASE/017