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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.

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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

ConfigLanguageConcepts
swadesh-beBelarusian207
swadesh-bgBulgarian207
swadesh-bsBosnian207
swadesh-caCatalan207
swadesh-csCzech207
swadesh-cuChurch Slavonic174
swadesh-deGerman207
swadesh-enEnglish207
swadesh-esSpanish207
swadesh-frFrench207
swadesh-hrCroatian207
swadesh-itItalian207
swadesh-laLatin207
swadesh-mkMacedonian207
swadesh-nlDutch207
swadesh-plPolish207
swadesh-ptPortuguese207
swadesh-roRomanian207
swadesh-ruRussian207
swadesh-skSlovak207
swadesh-slSlovenian207
swadesh-srSerbian207
swadesh-swSwahili207
swadesh-ukUkrainian207

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
concept_indexintSwadesh list position (1–207)
wordstringWord/phrase in that language (may contain alternatives)

Usage

python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("nltk-data-hub/swadesh", "swadesh-en")
words = ds["swadesh"]["word"]

Via NLTK

python
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 list

License

Derived from Wiktionary, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Citation

bibtex
@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}
}