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<DIV>Dear Corpora colleagues , I have computed the sound chains of some
dialects in the Slavonic, Turkic and Finno-Ugric languages. After comparing
their frequency characteristics by the Chi-square criterion, I discovered
the typological distances between these dialects. Many of them were too
different to be considered dialects, so I proposed to call them separate
languages. Be well, Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk,
Russia.</DIV></BODY></HTML>