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2. Prefixation Ability Index (PAI) allows us to see whether two languages can potentially be genetically related
2.1.4. PAI method testing: from a hypothesis toward a theory

Оглавление

In order to test PAI hypothesis I paid attention to some languages of firmly assembled stocks: Austronesian, Indo-European and Afroasiatic.


2.1.4.1. PAI of languages of Austronesian stock


Polynesian group


Eastern Polynesian Subgroup


Hawaiian 0.82 (calculated after Krupa 1979)


Maori 0.88 (calculated fater Krupa 1967)


Tahitian 0.66 (calculated after Arakin 1981)


Samoan-Tokelauan subgroup


Samoan 0.5 (calculated after Arakin 1973)


Tongic subgroup


Niuean 0.8 (calculated after Polinskaya 1995)


Tongan 0.78 (calculated after Fell 1918)


Philippine group


South Mindanao subgroup


T’boli 0.72 (calculated after Porter 1977)


Northern Luzon subgroup


Pangasinan 0.6 (calculated after Rayner 1923)


Malayo-Sumbawan group


Malay subgroup


Indonesian 0.53 (calculated after Ogloblin 2008)


Pic. 2. Map representing location of Austronesian languages mentioned in current chapter: languages are marked by red, place names are maked by black.


Chamic subgroup


Cham 0.6 (calculated after Aymonier 1889; Alieva, Bùi 1999)


Formosan group


Bunun 0.8 (calculated after De Busser 2009)


Eastern Barito group


Malagasy 0.74 (calculated after Arakin 1963)


2.1.4.2. PAI of languages Indo-European stock


German group


Dutch 0.49 (calculated after Donaldson 1997)


German 0.51 (calculated after Donaldson 2007)


English 0.61 (calculated after Barhkhudarov et al. 2000)


Icelandic 0.63 (calculated after Einarsson 1949)


Slavonic group


Czech 0.52 (calculated after Harkins 1952)


Polish 0.57 (calculated after Swan 2002)


Celtic group


Irish 0.67 (McGonage 2005)


Welsh 0.35 (calculated after King 2015)


Roman group


Latin 0.26 (calculated after Bennet 1913)


Spanish 0.34 (calculated after Kattán-Ibarra, Pountain 2003)


2.1.4.3. PAI of languages of Afroasiatic stock


Semitic group


Central Semitic subgroup


Arabic (Classical) 0.26 (calculated after Yushmanov 2008)


Phoenician 0.26 (calculated after Shiftman 2010)


Eastern Semitic subgroup


Akkadian (Old Babylonian dialect) 0.2 (calculated after Kaplan 2006)


Egypt group


Coptic (Sahidic dialect) 0.87 (calculated after Elanskaya 2010)


Pic. 3. Diagram representing PAI values of some firmly assembled stocks

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