cognate_dist {pald}

Cognate Data Distance Matrix

Description

A dist object describing distances between 87 Indo-European languages from the perspective of cognates.

Usage

cognate_dist

Format

A dist object for 87 Indo-European languages.

Details

Cognate relationships from a collection of essential words were collected from Dyen et al. and encoded in a 87x2665 binary matrix from which this distance matrix was derived (using Euclidean distance).

References

I. Dyen, J. B. Kruskal, P. Black, An Indoeuropean classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 82, iii-132 (1992).