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Published January 24, 2026 | Version v0.1.13 Software Open 1. http://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/ancient-language-lab 2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Update on January 24, 2026. Data Added glottolog 5.1 and 5.2 data. Name Size md5:296c653f4b3b11d024f5e7ec4b621e87 23.9 MB Software: https://github.com/erichround/glottoTrees/tree/v0.1.13 (URL)
Nyckelord: HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tree model; wave model; subgrouping; language phylogeny; torricelli languages; germanic languages; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Sammanfattning: Borrowing, especially between closely related dialects, has long been recognized as an impediment to linguistic subgrouping. The ‘waves’ of features spreading after initial divergence obscure the patterns of that divergence. This complicates the process of inferring language genealogy.
Words do some truly inventive things when they change, and change they always do. Some switch their sounds around, like when hros became hors, nowadays spelt with an extra e as horse. Some lose their sense of having an internal composition, like when wāl-hros ‘whale-horse’ became walrus.
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