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NLTK's Swadesh List in the Bulgarian-Macedonian part | Списък на Суадеш

While browsing the Swadesh list from the NLTK corpus, especially the Bulgarian and Macedonian*  columns. The Swadesh list is a corpus from comparative/historical/developmental linguistics, which is trying to map how languages evolved by tracking the most stable subset of words. It's also suggestive in the field of language acquisition/child language/developmental psychology/evolutionary psychology, because one can imagine which words would appear first in the vocabulary of a primitive human society and may reach to the...
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