Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal & Paul Black. An Indoeuropean Classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal & Paul Black. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 82]. (5). Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1992. iv, 132 pp.

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Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal & Paul Black. An Indoeuropean Classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal & Paul Black. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 82]. (5). Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1992. iv, 132 pp.

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