Work Georgiy Starostin

1 work

1.1 evolution of human languages
1.2 tower of babel project
1.3 starling database program

work

starostin s research focuses on evolution of human languages project; tower of babel, publicly searchable online database containing information many eurasia s language families; , starling, software package aid comparative linguists.

evolution of human languages

khoisan tribesman

the evolution of human languages (ehl) international project on linguistic prehistory of humanity coordinated santa fe institute. project distinguishes 6000 languages spoken in world nowadays, , aims provide detailed classification similar accepted classification of biological species.

their idea representatives of species homo sapiens presumably share common origin, [so] natural suppose - although goal yet achieved - human languages go common source. existing classifications, however, not go beyond 300-400 language families relatively easy discern. restriction has natural reasons: languages must have been spoken , evolving @ least 40,000 years (and quite more), while 2 languages separated common source inevitably lose superficially common features after 6,000-7,000 years .

george starostin s research here focuses on khoisan, formerly, bushman-hottentot languages of south africa. according starostin important work on khoisan languages has been done in past century, in descriptive , taxonomic area, not progress has been achieved in establishing regular phonological correspondences between main branches of khoisan , reconstructing phonological , morphological system of proto-khoisan.

tower of babel project

the tower of babel pieter brueghel elder (1563)

the tower of babel international etymological database project coordinated center of comparative linguistics of russian state university of humanities. project aims join efforts in research of long range connections between established language families of world. internet used combine these attempts , build commonly accessible database of roots, or etyma reconstructed world s major (and minor) linguistic stocks.

starling database program

the starling database program part of tower of babel project. software program developed starostin aims support various types of linguistic text , database processing, including handling of linguistic fonts in dos , windows operating systems, operations linguistic databases , internet presentation of linguistic data .