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Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)
35 points by wglb 55 days ago
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Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2068/202...
Ok neat but what are those outlier words? I bet that's fascinating.
Also see the Swadesh List[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list