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Onto2DLanguage Lineage & Borrowing
Historical LinguisticsVerifying artifact

Reconstructed + recorded history / identity

A family tree is not
the whole history.

Six exact language records share one concept. Glottolog supplies the vertical classification; WOLD supplies form-local borrowing evidence. Onto2D refuses to turn one into the other.

Sources
Glottolog 5.3 + Lexibank WOLD 4.2
Retrieved
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Case identity
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Source identity
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01 / Result at a glance

One concept. Two families. More than a tree.

The cohort is deliberately narrow: every card below is one WOLD form for LWT 1-87, joined to Glottolog by an exact Glottocode.

02 / Published classification

Vertical history remains attributed

These are selected Glottolog 5.3 paths. They are versioned classification claims, not a new Onto2D phylogeny and not unquestionable ground truth.

03 / Borrowing overlay

Horizontal evidence breaks the pure-tree view

Solid slate links summarize the selected classification paths. Orange arrowheads are WOLD borrowing records and never genealogical parents.

published classificationform-local borrowingperhaps borrowed

04 / Same concept, different histories

“The match” has six recorded forms

Borrowed score is WOLD's expert annotation. “No evidence for borrowing” is not promoted to proof of inheritance.

05 / Evidence inspector

Read the two confidence fields separately

06 / History equivalence

“Same” depends on the regime

07 / Historical Load

No honest load number here

—NOT EVALUATEDnull, not zero

08 / Reading discipline

Four layers, four meanings

CLASSIFICATION

Glottolog path

Published, attributed vertical grouping. It stays independently inspectable and replaceable by another published classification.

LEXICAL RECORD

WOLD form

One expert-curated form and borrowed-status annotation for one selected meaning.

BORROWING

Source relation

One donor-to-target-form record. It does not characterize the whole language and cannot become genealogy.

SIMILARITY

Display signal

A Unicode edit comparison only. It creates zero cognacy assertions and zero parent edges.