{"pk":34978,"title":"Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Tianshin Jackson Sun (Sun 1992, Sun 1993) was the first to suggest the phylogenetic relatedness of a number of highly divergent, endangered and poorly described languages of Western Arunachal Pradesh, later named the ‘Kho-Bwa cluster’ by Van Driem (2001). In this paper, we make use of what are predominantly new data from our own field work, covering a total of 22 linguistic varieties. In a list of 100 lexical entries, cognate roots were tagged and subsequently a pairwise “cognacy percentage” was computed which forms the basis for a hierarchic cluster analysis. The result of this analysis and some further considerations confirm earlier reported views of a phylogenetic relationship between these languages. The appendix contains the full data set with cognacy statements. All computer code is available and documented on Github (https://github.com/metroxylon/kho-bwa-lexicostat).","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Historical Linguistics"},{"word":"Lexico-statistics"},{"word":"Tibeto-Burman"},{"word":"Kho-Bwa"},{"word":"Duhumbi"},{"word":"Sartang"},{"word":"Sherdukpen"},{"word":"Bugun"},{"word":"Puroik"},{"word":"Arunachal Pradesh"},{"word":"python"},{"word":"Cluster analysis"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t27h5fg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ismael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lieberherr","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bern University, Switzerland\nTezpur University, Assam, India","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Timotheus","middle_name":"Adrianus","last_name":"Bodt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bern University, Switzerland\nTezpur University, Assam, India","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-08-28T09:16:46+02:00","date_accepted":"2016-08-28T09:16:46+02:00","date_published":"2017-12-31T09:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/34978/galley/26086/download/"}]}