Indo-European languages dataset

It contains the distances between 84 Indo-European languages based on the mean percent difference in cognacy, using the 200 Swadesh words.

Usage

data(dslanguages)

Format

An data frame with 84 rows and 84 columns containing a distance matrix.

Details

Once the data set is loaded, it can be accessed as an object of class dataframe called dslanguages.

References

Dyen, I., Kruskal, J., and Black, P. (1992). An indoeuropean classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 82, (5).