nltk-data-hub/swadesh
NLTK Swadesh Word Lists Basic vocabulary lists for 24 languages, derived from the Wiktionary Swadesh list appendix and distributed via NLTK. Each config is one language; each row is one of the 207 Swadesh concepts. Languages Config Language Concepts swadesh-be Belarusian 207 swadesh-bg Bulgarian 207 swadesh-bs Bosnian 207 swadesh-ca Catalan 207 swadesh-cs Czech 207 swadesh-cu Church Slavonic 174 swadesh-de German 207 swadesh-en English 207… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nltk-data-hub/swadesh.
NLTK Swadesh Word Lists
Basic vocabulary lists for 24 languages, derived from the Wiktionary Swadesh list appendix and distributed via NLTK.
Each config is one language; each row is one of the 207 Swadesh concepts.
Languages
Schema
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("nltk-data-hub/swadesh", "swadesh-en")
words = ds["swadesh"]["word"]Via NLTK
import nltk
nltk.download("words", hf=True)
nltk.corpus.words.words("swadesh-en") # English Swadesh list
nltk.corpus.words.words("swadesh-de") # German Swadesh list
nltk.corpus.words.words("swadesh-ru") # Russian Swadesh listLicense
Derived from Wiktionary, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Citation
@misc{swadesh,
author = {Swadesh, Morris},
title = {Swadesh Word Lists},
note = {Via Wiktionary Appendix:Swadesh\_list, CC-BY-SA 3.0},
url = {https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_list}
}