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Swadesh list of 207 words in English and Georgian, including the transcription in latin characters and the International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation.

Presentation

For further information, read the article: Swadesh list

The Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh, is used as a tool to study the evolution of languages. It contains a set of basic words which can be found in every language. Various versions have been created, in particular:

• a complete 207 words version, in which some of the words are not found in every environment (it contains for instance snake and snow)
• a reduced 100 words version.

This word list should not be considered as an elementary lexicon to communicate with speakers of a given language; for such a purpose, the numerous existing Wikivoyage lexicons are more useful. Its only objective is to give a rough idea of the language, by showing its lexical and, when possible, phonetics basis.

List

• Orthography :

When the words have various forms (verbs conjugation, gender and number agreement, declensions), the orthography is the following :

• verbs : infinitive
• other words : neutral or masculine, singular, nominative (subject)

For specific cases (no infinitive, feminine name, plural name for instance), the simplest form is used.

See also

• Georgian
• Georgian alphabet
• Georgian national system of romanization

Bibliography

• Le géorgien de poche, Assimil, Chennevières-sur-Marne 2003 - ISBN 2-7005-0322-8 (in French)
• Les langages de l'humanité (Michel Malherbe), Robert Laffont, Paris 1995 - ISBN 2-221-05947-6 (in French)

External links

• Georgian dictionaries (Lexilogos) (in French)
• English-Georgian dictionary
• Another English-Georgian dictionary
• Georgian-latin transliteration (different method, unknown origin)
• Examples of pronunciation (in French)
• Wiktionary : Swadesh list
• Georgian Wiktionary (in Georgian)