loanwordbank brings together lexical and etymological material for studying ancient loanwoards and language contact.
What you will find here:
- 🗂️ A family of repositories maintained under the loanwordbank GitHub organization.
- 📚 Linguistic datasets published as CLDF (e.g. wordlists, dictionaries).
- 🐍 The loanpy package — helpers and workflows for working with the data in Python.
- 🔬 Analysis repositories for reverse engineering methodologies of pairwise ancient loanword detection.
The project grew out of a doctoral thesis on historical loanword strata of Hungarian at the University of Vienna.
💬 Proposals for new datasets, fixes, and extensions are welcome; please open a discussion or issue at https://github.com/loanwordbank/.github/issues