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Jayaram, B.D., Vidya, M.N.

Word length distribution in Indian languages

The paper investigates Indian Language pattern with respect to word length distribution. The languages selected are Assamese, Marathi and Hindi belonging to Indo-Aryan family and Kan­nada and Tamil belonging to Dravidian Family. It examines data of different registers like Aesthetics, Social Science, Natural, Physical and Professional Sciences, Official and Media languages and Trans­lated Material. It is observed that no single distribution fits across languages while across registers a single distribution fits majority of samples.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 12, 03/2006
Pages: 16-38

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