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An Algorithm For Building Language Superfamilies Using Swadesh Lists, Bill Mutabazi
An Algorithm For Building Language Superfamilies Using Swadesh Lists, Bill Mutabazi
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The main contributions of this thesis are the following: i. Developing an algorithm to generate language families and superfamilies given for each input language a Swadesh list represented using the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) notation. ii. The algorithm is novel in using the Levenshtein distance metric on the IPA representation and in the way it measures overall distance between pairs of Swadesh lists. iii. Building a Swadesh list for the author's native Kinyarwanda language because a Swadesh list could not be found even after an extensive search for it.
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