Intercontinental Dictionary Series

Summary

The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (commonly abbreviated as IDS) is a large database of topical vocabulary lists in various world languages. The general editor of the database is Bernard Comrie of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Mary Ritchie Key of the University of California, Irvine is the founding editor. The database has an especially large selection of indigenous South American languages and Northeast Caucasian languages.

The Intercontinental Dictionary Series' advanced browsing function allows users to make custom tables which compare languages in side-by-side columns.

Below are the languages that are currently included in the Intercontinental Dictionary Series. The languages are grouped by language families, some of which are still hypothetical.

It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.[1]

Amerindian edit

North America edit

Northern South America edit

Amazonia edit

Southern South America edit

Northeast Caucasian edit

Indo-European edit

Uralic edit

Tai-Kadai edit

Others edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Cross-Linguistic Linked Data". Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  • Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) 2015. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links edit

  • Intercontinental Dictionary Series
  • Guide to the Intercontinental Dictionary Series project CD-ROMs. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.