Exploring the Corresponding Words Among the Subgroupings, Revising Swadesh List, Compared with Chinese

Ke Luo

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Exploring the Corresponding Words Among the Subgroupings, Revising Swadesh List, Compared with Chinese

Ke Luo

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 7, Issue 3)

Received: 2 March 2019 Accepted: 29 April 2019 Published: 31 May 2019

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In 1647, the Dutch linguist Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn noted the similarity among certain Asian and European languages and first theorized that they were derived from a primitive common language which he called Scythian (proto-language). For hundreds of years, many scholars have been studying the cognate of the subgroupings of Indo-European languages. This paper with the Swadesh list compares several subgroupings of Indo-European languages and finds out that their cognate correspondence is closer. It is inferred that the Proto-Indo-European was a language with very rich vocabulary and should be contained independently in the subgroupings at the beginning of its dissemination. This paper proposes a revised Swadesh list which can be used to assess language homology degree in high or low, and compares English with Chinese. The result shows that Chinese and English have the same origin.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 7, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20190703.13
Page(s)	110-118
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Indo-European Languages, Swadesh List, English, Chinese, Cognate

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Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Environment Engineering, Beijing

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