Intercontinental Dictionary Series
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The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, edited by Mary Ritchie Key and Bernard Comrie, records the words for the same 1,310 concepts in 337 languages. Each wordlist is a Living Dictionary here, so its community can keep adding words, audio and examples.

Data: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) 2023. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. ids.clld.org · CC BY 4.0 · Updated 11/7/2026

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