Consider the following data:
Language A:
due
naso
fratello
padre
sette
orecchio
dieci
Language B:
bi
sudur
anaia
aita
zazpi
belarri
hamar
Language C:
dó
srón
bráthair
athair
seacht
cluas
deich
Language D
doi
nas
frate
tată
sapte
ureche
zece
Gloss
‘two’
‘nose’ ‘brother’ ‘father’ ‘seven’
‘ear’
‘ten’
i. Which two languages seem to be very closely related? How can you tell?
ii. What language seems to be at least distantly related to the two languages you identified in (i)? How can you tell?
iii. Which language is not related to the others? How can you tell?
