Re: Armenian (was: Re: ISO 639-3 changes, part 3)

http://www.elinguistics.net gives:

"The genetic proximity between Danish and Norwegian(bokmal) is:  3,7".
"The genetic proximity between Danish and Swedish is:  15,7".
"The genetic proximity between Spanish and Portuguese is:  19,4".
"The genetic proximity between Danish and Norwegian(nynorsk) is:  23,1".
"The genetic proximity between Italian and Romanian is:  29,4".
"The genetic proximity between Spanish and French is:  37,1".

"The genetic proximity between Armenian and Armenian_(Eastern) is:  5,0".
"The genetic proximity between Armenian and Armenian_(Classical) is:  35,4".


I have no idea how accurate that is (nor how to exactly interpret the
numbers, and even less how they were derived). Just wanted to get some
comparison. But I take it that Michael means that the distance between
Armenian and Armenian_(Eastern) should be around 20-30 on that scale.


There is also: 
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/17400/worldwide-map-or-data-
for-linguistic-distance (a bit down on the page there is a table with
numbers; slightly different from the above ones). Neither the maps nor the
table cover Armenian, though.

/Kent K


Den 2018-03-01 10:20, skrev "Michael Everson" <[email protected]>:

> We made that registration assuming that hy covered both and that they were
> mutually intelligible dialects. They are not mutually intelligible without a
> great deal of work. It is not like Danish and Swedish. It is more like Italian
> and Romanian.

There will be older data using ³hy² for both, of course. This
> is a disunification.