Welcome to The ASJP Database
The database of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) aims to contain 40-item word lists of all the world's languages. A lexical distance can be obtained by comparing the word lists, which is useful, for instance, for classifying a language group and for inferring its age of divergence. Click the Help link for further instructions, and for more background visit Wikipedia.
How to cite:
Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, and Cecil H. Brown (eds.). 2022. The ASJP Database (version 20).
| Wordlists | 10,168 |
|---|---|
| Synsets | 434,584 |
| Words | 482,118 |
| Distinct Ethnologue families | 279 |
| Distinct Glottolog families | 404 |
| Distinct ISO 639-3 languages | 5,590 |
| Missing ISO 639-3 languages | 2,136 |