Language Phylogenies Database:

351 Studies from 664 Authors. 443796 Analyses using 72 Tools. Published in 108 Locations.


Dataset and To-Do list. (Version: 4542427)

If you find this useful, please cite:

Greenhill, S. J. (2023). Language Phylogenies. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, C61P1-C61P248. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.61.

Publications by Year:

    010203019831996199719982000200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

    Analysis Types:

      Groups Studied:

        Indo-European: 97global: 53Austronesian: 43Bantu: 26Creoles: 15Japonic: 14Sino-Tibetan: 14Turkic: 13Pama-Nyungan: 12Uralic: 11Tungusic: 10Rest: 226

        Datatypes Used:

          lexical cognates: 279structural features: 91ethnographic features: 41syntactical features: 29phonetic traits: 24lexical distance: 15mixed: 12structural distance: 12distance: 10phonetic distance: 9lexical cognates (autodetected): 7Rest: 37

          Locations Published:

            Chapter: 55Diachronica: 18PLoS One: 17Proc. B: 17J. Lang. Evol: 15PNAS: 15Proceedings: 13Lang. Dyn & Change: 12Phil. Trans.: 10Trans. Am. Phil. Soc.: 10Language: 9Rest: 158

            Analysis Tools Used:

              splitstree: 80bayestraits: 46beast2: 35mrbayes: 32paup*: 27custom: 20bayesphylogenies: 19caper: 18beast: 17phytools: 17r: 15Rest: 178

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