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  • proper noun A surname.

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Examples

  • Each volunteer speaker of a language of interest is first tested with what is known as a Swadesh list.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • More than a dozen films were in the race for Oscar representation, including two others starring Khan: "Veer-Zaara", a love story involving a Pakistani girl and an Indian air force pilot, and "Swadesh" (Homeland).

    Archive 2005-09-25 Michael Evans 2005

  • More than a dozen films were in the race for Oscar representation, including two others starring Khan: "Veer-Zaara", a love story involving a Pakistani girl and an Indian air force pilot, and "Swadesh" (Homeland).

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • The song in background is from the Bollywood movie 'Swadesh' ..

    WN.com - Articles related to US urges India to address impediments to trade 2010

  • Half a century ago, both Sydney M. Lamb and Morris Swadesh hypothesized that about fifty centuries ago (circa 3000 B.C.), the Proto-Uto-Aztecan culture was becoming "dialectically differentiated, perhaps somewhere around the Arizona-Sonora border."

    Are you related to the Aztecs? 2008

  • Half a century ago, both Sydney M. Lamb and Morris Swadesh hypothesized that about fifty centuries ago (circa 3000 B.C.), the Proto-Uto-Aztecan culture was becoming "dialectically differentiated, perhaps somewhere around the Arizona-Sonora border."

    Are you related to the Aztecs? 2008

  • Another interesting divergence estimated by Swadesh and Lamb includes the differentiation of the Ute (in Utah) from the Luiseno (of California) -38 minimum centuries ago.

    Are you related to the Aztecs? 2008

  • Another interesting divergence estimated by Swadesh and Lamb includes the differentiation of the Ute (in Utah) from the Luiseno (of California) -38 minimum centuries ago.

    Are you related to the Aztecs? 2008

  • And actually it was the application to radioactive decay, and especially its recent application in arche - ology to radiocarbon dating, that inspired Swadesh's method and aroused hopes for it (Swadesh, 1952).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

  • Raise the banner of Swadesh, crying Victory to the Mother!

    Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890

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