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Languages and sounds

An interactive analysis of the multilingualism and the sound layer of Finnegans Wake. All measures are dictionary heuristics.

click a language to see its words

"Exclusive match": the word fails the English dictionary test and appears on the frequency list of exactly one language — this filters out loans and list contamination. Lists: OpenSubtitles 50k (hermitdave) plus hunspell (Irish, Latin).

Parts of speech of the blends (suffix heuristic)

A blend = a word outside all dictionaries that splits into two dictionary parts (≥3 letters, the longer ≥4). Part language: English if it matches; among foreign candidates — the best frequency rank. POS guessed from the suffix of the whole word.