: On the threshold of relationship and the “stability index” of basic lexicon in mass comparison: Atlantic languages

International audienceThe paper deals with certain key aspects of the procedure of establishing long-range genetic relationship between languages in the absence of a classic step-by-step reconstruction, such as: 1) the issue of establishing the randomness threshold for lexical matches on the Swadesh 100-item wordlist, depending on the particularities of the employed algorithm;2) the issue of stability ranking in the spere of the basic lexicon;3) the issue of multiple isolated roots that do not find any parallels in the other languages of the family