The Leipzig–Jakarta list is a 100-word word list used by linguists to test the degree of chronological separation of languages by comparing words that are resistant to borrowing.
- ant
- arm/hand
- ash
- back
- big
- bird
- to bite
- bitter
- black
- blood
- to blow
- bone
- breast
- to burn (intransitive)
- to carry
- child (reciprocal of parent)
- to come
- to crush/to grind
- to cry/to weep
- to do/to make
- dog
- drink
- ear
- to eat
- egg
- eye
- to fall
- far
- fire
- fish
- flesh/meat
- fly
- to give
- to go
- good
- hair
- hard
- he/she/it/him/her
- to hear
- heavy
- to hide
- to hit/to beat
- horn
- house
- I/me
- in
- knee
- to know
- to laugh
- leaf
- leg/foot
- liver
- long
- louse
- mouth
- name
- navel
- neck
- new
- night
- nose
- not
- old
- one
- rain
- red
- root
- rope
- to run
- salt
- sand
- to say
- to see
- shade/shadow
- skin/hide
- small
- smoke
- soil
- to stand
- star
- stone/rock
- to suck
- sweet
- tail
- to take
- thick
- thigh
- this
- to tie
- tongue
- tooth
- water
- what?
- who?
- wide
- wind
- wing
- wood
- yesterday
- you (singular)
It’s utterly nonsensical to alphabetize the list; should it not be ordered by ranking, that is by the degree of borrowability?