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Language 1:
Abkhaz
Adyghe
Afar
Afrikaans
Ainu
Albanian_(Gheg)
Albanian_(Tosk)
Aleut
Altai
Amharic
Arabic
Aramaic_(Syriac)
Arbanaski
Armenian
Armenian_(Classical)
Armenian_(Eastern)
Assamese
Assyro-Babylonian
Avar
Avestan
Azeri
Balochi
Basaa
Bashkir
Basque
Bavarian
Belarusian
Bemba
Bengali
Bihari
Bole
Brahui
Brazilian
Breton
Bulgarian
Burmese
Burushaski
Buryat
Buyang
Catalan
Cebuano
Chechen
Chinese_(Cantonese)
Chinese_(Mandarin)
Chuvash
Comorian
Coptic
Cornish
Croatian
Czech
Dalmatian
Danish
Dargwa
Dhivehi_(Maldivian)
Dizi
Douala
Dutch
Elamite
English
Estonian
Etruscan
Even
Faroese
Finnish
Flemish
French
French_Creole_C
French_Creole_D
Frisian
Friulian
Fula
Galician
Gaulish
Geez
Gelao
Georgian
German
Gothic
Greek_(ancient)
Greek_(modern)
Greenlandic_(Eastern)
Greenlandic_(Western)
Gujarati
Gypsy_Romani
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hittite
Hungarian
Hurrian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Ishkashimi
Istro-Romanian
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kabardino_Cherkess
Kabylian
Kalasha
Kalmyk
Kannada
Karelian
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Ket
Khanti
Khmer
Khowar
Kivalliq
Komi
Korean
Kurdish
Kurukh
Kyrgyz
Labrador_Inuttut
Ladin
Lahnda
Lak
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Letzebuergesch
Lezgian
Lithuanian
Luwian
Lycian
Macedonian
Magahi
Malagasy
Malayalam
Maltese
Manchu
Mansi
Maori
Marathi
Mari
Marwari
Middle_Persian
Mon
Mongolian
Mycenaean
Nayi
Nenets
Nepali
Norwegian(bokmal)
Norwegian(nynorsk)
Old_Church_Slavonic
Old_Egyptian
Old_English
Old_High_German
Old_Irish
Old_Norse
Old_Persian
Oriya
Oromo
Oroqen
Oscan
Ossetic_(Digor)
Ossetic_(Iron)
Pashto
Pennsylvania_Dutch
Persian
Phoenician
Phrygian
Polish
Portuguese
Proto_Indo_European
Provencal
Prussian
Punjabi
Romanian
Romansch
Russian
Safaitic
Saka
Sami
Samoan
Sanskrit
Sanskrit_(Vedic)
Sardinian_L
Sardinian_N
Sariqoli
Schwyzerduetsch
Scots_(Scottish_English)
Scottish_Gaelic
Serbian
Shan
Sheko
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovene
Sogdian
Somali
Spanish
Sranan
Sumerian
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tamasheq
Tamil
Tashelhit
Tatar
Tausug
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrigna
Tmazight_(Riffian_Berber)
Tocharian_A
Tocharian_B
Tsakonian
Turkish
Turkmen
Tuvan
Ukrainian
Umbrian
Urartian
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Veps
Vietnamese
Vlach
Wakhi
Walloon
Warji
Waziri
Welsh
Wolof
Yakut
Yiddish
Yoruba
Yupik
Zazaki
Zulu
Language 2:
Abkhaz
Adyghe
Afar
Afrikaans
Ainu
Albanian_(Gheg)
Albanian_(Tosk)
Aleut
Altai
Amharic
Arabic
Aramaic_(Syriac)
Arbanaski
Armenian
Armenian_(Classical)
Armenian_(Eastern)
Assamese
Assyro-Babylonian
Avar
Avestan
Azeri
Balochi
Basaa
Bashkir
Basque
Bavarian
Belarusian
Bemba
Bengali
Bihari
Bole
Brahui
Brazilian
Breton
Bulgarian
Burmese
Burushaski
Buryat
Buyang
Catalan
Cebuano
Chechen
Chinese_(Cantonese)
Chinese_(Mandarin)
Chuvash
Comorian
Coptic
Cornish
Croatian
Czech
Dalmatian
Danish
Dargwa
Dhivehi_(Maldivian)
Dizi
Douala
Dutch
Elamite
English
Estonian
Etruscan
Even
Faroese
Finnish
Flemish
French
French_Creole_C
French_Creole_D
Frisian
Friulian
Fula
Galician
Gaulish
Geez
Gelao
Georgian
German
Gothic
Greek_(ancient)
Greek_(modern)
Greenlandic_(Eastern)
Greenlandic_(Western)
Gujarati
Gypsy_Romani
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hittite
Hungarian
Hurrian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Ishkashimi
Istro-Romanian
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kabardino_Cherkess
Kabylian
Kalasha
Kalmyk
Kannada
Karelian
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Ket
Khanti
Khmer
Khowar
Kivalliq
Komi
Korean
Kurdish
Kurukh
Kyrgyz
Labrador_Inuttut
Ladin
Lahnda
Lak
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Letzebuergesch
Lezgian
Lithuanian
Luwian
Lycian
Macedonian
Magahi
Malagasy
Malayalam
Maltese
Manchu
Mansi
Maori
Marathi
Mari
Marwari
Middle_Persian
Mon
Mongolian
Mycenaean
Nayi
Nenets
Nepali
Norwegian(bokmal)
Norwegian(nynorsk)
Old_Church_Slavonic
Old_Egyptian
Old_English
Old_High_German
Old_Irish
Old_Norse
Old_Persian
Oriya
Oromo
Oroqen
Oscan
Ossetic_(Digor)
Ossetic_(Iron)
Pashto
Pennsylvania_Dutch
Persian
Phoenician
Phrygian
Polish
Portuguese
Proto_Indo_European
Provencal
Prussian
Punjabi
Romanian
Romansch
Russian
Safaitic
Saka
Sami
Samoan
Sanskrit
Sanskrit_(Vedic)
Sardinian_L
Sardinian_N
Sariqoli
Schwyzerduetsch
Scots_(Scottish_English)
Scottish_Gaelic
Serbian
Shan
Sheko
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovene
Sogdian
Somali
Spanish
Sranan
Sumerian
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tamasheq
Tamil
Tashelhit
Tatar
Tausug
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrigna
Tmazight_(Riffian_Berber)
Tocharian_A
Tocharian_B
Tsakonian
Turkish
Turkmen
Tuvan
Ukrainian
Umbrian
Urartian
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Veps
Vietnamese
Vlach
Wakhi
Walloon
Warji
Waziri
Welsh
Wolof
Yakut
Yiddish
Yoruba
Yupik
Zazaki
Zulu
The genetic proximity between
Finnish
and
Estonian
is:
16,7
100
75
50
25
0
These langages are
very closely related!
*
Statistical context of this comparison:
The statistical expected value is
90,5
with a standard deviation of
5,0
. The probability to get a genetic proximity of
16,7
or less by chance is
0,0%
.
The
more red zone is covered
by the orange vertical result line on the graph, the higher is the probability that the result
is due to chance
. The
farther right
the line is in the green area, the
closer
the langages are
related
.
The genetic proximity is expressed as a value between
0
(same language) and
100
(biggest possible distance). In practice, the values reflect
approximately
following degree of genetic proximity:
Between
1
and
30
:
Highly related languages
. Protolanguage (common “ancestor”) between several centuries and
approx.
2000 years.
Between
30
and
50
:
Related languages
. Protolanguage
approx.
between 2000 and 4000 years.
Between
50
and
70
:
Remotely related languages
. Protolanguage
approx.
between 4000 and 6000 years.
Between
70
and
78
:
Very remotely related languages
. Protolanguage
approx.
older than 6000 years - but high potential of
interference with chance ressemblance
.
Between
78
and
100
:
No recognizable relationship:
the few ressemlances measured are more likely to be due to chance than to common origin!
The average genetic proximity of all languages of this study is
71,8
. The
average
statistical
expected value
is
83.36
with an
average
standard deviation
of
5,03
. The expected values and expected standard deviations stated in the pairwise comparisons are specific to these comparisons and reflect their own exposure to chance. More about statistics in elinguistics.net
here