3. Lexical contact in Daghestan
Data by Misha Daniel, Iliya Chechuro, Samira Verhees.
There 225 nouns coming from mid-range of the The World Loanword Database list (
http://wold.clld.org/) collected from Archi, Bezhta and Avar language. Since it is possible to have multiple words with selected meaning and some words could appear to be in different languages they were grouped into cognate sets. Create row names by following command
dataset could be downloaded from here:
https://goo.gl/4sJqv1row.names(data) <- paste(1:294, df$english)
Make hierarchical clustering for this data.
Visualise it
library(ape)
plot(as.phylo(hc),
type = "fan",
cex = 0.6,
no.margin = TRUE,
tip.color = c("red", "navy")[df$archi])
Play around with different types: "phylogram", "cladogram", "unrooted", "radial"
Play around with different Avar and Bezhta variables