Linguistics References
- University of Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary – Comprehensive electronic lexicon of Sumerian, the oldest written language.
- Pagel et al., 2013 – Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (PNAS).
- Babaev 2009 – Once again on the comparison of personal pronouns in proto-languages.
- Blasi et al. 2016 – Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages (PNAS). Found systematic sound-meaning links in ~4,000 languages, including R → round.
- LA Times (2016) – In world's languages, scientists discover shared links between sound and meaning.
- Beaufils 2021 – Stochastic approach to worldwide language classification: the signals and the noise towards long-range exploration. Explores computational methods for distant language relationships using sound correspondences.