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What does ASJP stand for?

The database of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) aims to contain 40-item word lists of all the world's languages. A lexical distance can be obtained by comparing the word lists, which is useful, for instance, for classifying a language group and for inferring its age of divergence.

How do I download the ASJP database?

The ASJP database in ASJP's txt format is included in the zip file provided as download at Zenodo under the directory path raw/lists.txt . Now you can copy and paste whatever you want of this txt file into a data file of your own. To find a particular language in the database, search for its ISO 639-3-code preceded by three spaces.

What is the ASJP Consortium?

The ASJP Consortium, founded around 2008, [when?] came to involve around 25 professional linguists and other interested parties working as volunteer transcribers and/or extending aid to the project in other ways. The main driving force behind the founding of the consortium was Cecil H. Brown. Søren Wichmann is daily curator of the project.

Is ASJP a reliable method for establishing relationships between language families?

ASJP is not widely accepted among historical linguists as an adequate method to establish or evaluate relationships between language families. It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.