AUTHORS: Bill Mutabazi, Peter Z. Revesz
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ABSTRACT: This paper utilizes lexicostatistics and agglomerative, bottom-up hierarchical clustering methods to to identify the interrelatedness of thirty-two different Bantu languages and to computer generate an evolutionary tree for the Bantu language family
KEYWORDS: - Bantu, Cognate, Hierarchical Clustering, Language Evolution, Lexicostatistics, Phylogenetic Tree
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