![]() ![]() They also helped compare the TLG and PhiloLogic Greek data, and digitized the LASLA Latin frequency data. Dickinson students Alice Ettling, James Martin, Meredith Wilson, and Lara Frymark edited and proof read the lists in the summer of 2012, creating the semantic groupings and part of speech lists. Meghan Reedy and Marc Mastrangelo, both of Dickinson College, improved the Latin and the Greek lists by helping to decide which words to include and how to list them. Eric Casey of Sweet Briar College proof read the Greek list at a later stage and is responsible for a great many improvements. This work was carried out by Chris Francese in 2012-13, with valuable help from the following: Wilfred Major of Louisiana State University was of enormous help at an early stage of the development of the Greek list, especially in analyzing the TLG frequency data and spotting innumerable pitfalls in it. Dik for providing this valuable data, and for her very helpful advice about the list and related matters.ĭefinitions were adapted from various sources, including Major 2008, Liddell and Scott's Intermediate Greek Lexicon, Logeion, and Harper and Wallace 1893.įor both lists many judgment calls had to be made about which words to include and how to list them. ![]() I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Prof. ![]() This frequency data was kindly provided by Helma Dik of the University of Chicago. The corpus of Greek authors at Perseus under PhiloLogic, which at the time our list was developed (summer 2012) contained approximately 5 million words. Pantelia for providing this valuable data.Ģ. I would like to express my warm thanks to Prof. The point of the chronological limit of AD 200 was to minimize any possible distortions that would be caused by the large amount of later Christian and Byzantine Greek in the TLG, texts that are not typically read by most students of ancient Greek. The subset included all texts in the database up to AD 200, for a total of 20.003 million words of this total, the period AD 100-200 accounts for about half, 10.235 million. A subset of the comprehensive Thesaurus Linguae Graecae database, frequency data kindly provided by Maria Pantelia of TLG. Sources of frequency data for the Greek core listġ. The frequency rankings are derived from LASLA and do not take Diederich's counts into consideration. ![]() Diederich “The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings,” (Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1939), as digitized by Carolus Raeticus in 2011.ĭefinitions and quantities were adapted from various sources, including Lodge 1922, and the Oxford Latin Dictionary. Denooz, Dictionnaire fr équentiel et index inverse de la langue latine (Liège: Laboratoire d'Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes, 1981). Sources of frequency data for the Latin core listġ. Latin-Turkish: Mert İnan and Emin Comoglu Latin-Spanish: Francisco Javier Pérez Cartagena Latin-Polish: Statek Feaków and Ship of Phaeacians Latin-Chinese: The editorial board of Dickinson Classics Online Greek-Turkish: Mert İnan and Emin Comoglu Greek-Polish: Statek Feaków and Ship of Phaeacians Greek-Chinese: The editorial board of Dickinson Classics Online Greek-Arabic: Leon Blosser and Bilal Temeni If you would like to contribute another translation, please do! We want the lists to be as useful as possible to Latin and Greek students around the world. Thanks also to developers Lara Frymark and Ryan Burke, whose work allows for the upload of new lists. Many thanks are due to the individuals and groups who have generously provided translations of the DCC Core Vocabularies and agreed to share them on the site. Please send us an email to let us know how you use the list. The lists are downloadable in various formats and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. They were originally composed in 2012–13 by a team at Dickinson College led by Christopher Francese. The DCC Core Vocabulary lists represent the thousand most common words in Latin and the 500 most common words in ancient Greek. ![]()
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