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? dhok posts: 235
, Alkali Metal, Norman, United States
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So, I've been working on the Basic Vocab for Philologists again. For the Latin spreadsheet, I just got every word out of the Dickinson list as a spreadsheet column. One thing I would like to do is add any words that are also found in Wheelock's that aren't in the frequency list, although I don't know how to do that, since the columns aren't in identical format.

For Greek, the biggest frequency list is Dickinson's, although that's only about 500 words. Any words that are in Cheadle that are not also in Dickinson will be included as well, but this is a good place to start, and five hundred words takes a while, anyways.

So, I have the basic lists up for both Latin and Greek, with glosses and etymologies to come.

As for Sanskrit...we're working on it. It's almost certainly going to require some wrestling with the corpora, which is looking to be a bit of a task. There's an easy way to get a frequency list for any given text with Heidelberg's database, but getting one out of a combination of texts isn't so easy. (If I really can't figure it out, I may just try to get a frequency list out of the Mahabharata, which is so massive it might do by itself...)

(Also thinking about eventually making similar spreadsheets for modern languages- at the very least, German, the Romance languages and Russian. I wonder if there's a way to put all this on Anthologica...?)