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The ASJP World Language Tree of Lexical Similarity

The latest result of mapping the lexical similarity—not to be straightforwardly equated with genealogical relationship—of the languages in our database (amounting to close to half the world’s languages) onto a tree structure is presented in this working paper:

Müller, André, Søren Wichmann, Viveka Velupillai, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Sebastian Sauppe, Eric W. Holman, Dik Bakker, Johann-Mattis List, Dmitri Egorov, Oleg Belyaev, Robert Mailhammer, Matthias Urban, Helen Geyer, and Anthony Grant. 2010. ASJP World Language Tree of Lexical Similarity: Version 3 (July 2010).

To view a tree without the introduction which has the added advantage of being searchable for language names (using CTR F) click here.

On a separate page earlier versions can be accessed.