| Comparative linguistics - Persian |
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Posted by: Vincent on January 5, 2013, 23:09
I had an offline report about Persian - the result for the genetic proximity between Persian and German being disappointing. I give results for the nearest languages to Persian (as the come out of the system!) here:First, the ancestors: Sanskrit to Avestan: 41 Persian -> Tajik: 8 Persian -> Kurdish: 35 Persian -> Urdu: 48 Persian -> Pandjabi: 48 Persian -> Nepali: 49 Persian -> Pashto: 51 Persian -> Sindhi: 55 Persian -> Romanian: 56 Persian -> Ossetic: 59 Persian -> Sanskrit: 48 Persian -> French: 58 Persian -> Gyp.Romani: 58 Persian -> Hindi: 58 Persian -> Hungarian: 60 Persian -> Catalan: 62 The results are very consistent here, all 10 languages from the Indo-Iranian sub-family being among the top 13 (there are the only ones, plus Persian of course, I have in the study). Ossetic is remotely associated with this sub-family so no surprise we find it here. The presence of Roman languages as part of the common Indo-European macro family is also consistent. Only Hungarian appears in a position which is not consistent, as it is classified in another macro-family - but it appears with quite a high distance value. Don't forget these are purely computerized results using only 18 words - which explain that not all results are perfect :o. |
Blog author: Vincent Beaufils