Appendix talk:Turkic Swadesh lists

Languages and corrections added between 01.2009 - 07.2009 were mostly added by Darkstar. Murator worked on Tatar and Bashkir. Ali added Karachay-Balkar (checked and corrected by Darkstar). The Altai list needs double-checking and may be no more than 97% reliable (as of 07.2009).

Check out the Russian page for possible updates not connected with the English version.

The Bashkir and Tatar, and the Kazakh and Kyrgyz lists coincide by ~97% and may be viewed as dialects or very closely related languages. The lexicostatistical relatedness of Chuvash to any other language is about 70% (+/-1%) (Darkstar)

NB: Only words with regular, ordinary, standard or everyday meaning may be added to a Swadesh list. For an English example, "big" for something of more than average size but probably not (or less likely) "large", let alone "great" (too formal or a different meaning). However, in many cases it's very difficult to deliniate two meanings in a remote language, in that case you may add secondary meanings after a semicolon if you provide a very short explanation using small-tags, e.g. "large" (more formal). No words should be added just because they look alike but have a different meaning, such as Turkish "duman" (smoke), but normally Turkic "tuman" (fog), however you may add words of interest as long as you provide a short explanation. Adding unnecessary and redundant synonyms clutters up the lists and makes them poorly interpretable.

missing entries for proto-turkic
I think the missing entries in the Proto-Turkic list can and should be filled in. but i suspect more research is needed for those particular missing entries - examples include "and", "husband", "there", "here", "they", "because", &c. as these words cannot be filled in based on the information available on Wiktionary now - we would need evidence to prove that Proto-Turkic used the same word for "man" and "husband", or in the case of "and" we have no common Turkic root - though surely there would have been one. L0ngh3nry89 (talk) 09:45, 5 September 2023 (UTC)