The Rosetta Project provides a large number of Swadesh lists online, allowing you to "create a custom word list chart." Via the suddenly reanimated Linguistiblogs, which also links to this delightful Proto-Indo-European crossword puzzle.
Posted by languagehat at April 29, 2003 03:11 PMGlad to see people are still reading! It's been an insanely busy month, but I think I've found a good system for hunting up interesting links, so there shouldn't be any more lapses for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: Meredith at April 30, 2003 08:09 PMI love the Swadesh lists. I've been using them to help generate texts for years. Another good resource is "A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languges." An oldie, but a goodie.
Posted by: Phillip Bruce at April 30, 2003 08:44 PM Im studying the Mayan culture and while reading an article on mayan epigraphy I came upon the Swadesh 200 diagnostic list ???
Could you please tell me where to find information?
Thank you. Maria Teresa Gaona
See the "Swadesh lists" link above? Click on it, then change the number in "Display 100 words" to 200 and click Refresh.
Posted by: language hat at June 21, 2004 07:39 AMI need Swadesh's original 100-meaning list.
(All my sources at hand have later versions or 200 items; can't find it in local libraries.)
Please send it if you have it.
Try searching for Swadesh 100.
I think the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, which is worth getting anyway, has both versions of the list.
Posted by: Anton Sherwood at May 18, 2005 03:14 PM