• Lvxferre@lemmy.mlM
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    1 year ago

    Important context on Index Diachronica: it’s intended mostly for conlangers aiming for naturalistic/believable conlangs, in order to implement sound changes in their conlangs. I’ve seen a few linguists using them in informal discussion for Historical Linguistics, but it should be taken with a grain of salt since, while it’s an amazing resource, there might be some rough corners and errors here and there, and it includes families discredited by the academy (as Altaic).

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      1 year ago

      Good to know. Curious if there are any projects out there trying to make a more complete and scientifically accurate version, like PHOIBLE for phone inventories and WALS (or now grambank!) for syntax