This code example accompanies the Blog Post "How to Compute Colexification Networks with CL Toolkit (How to do X in Linguistics 11)" by List (2022).
You need to install the python-igraph package, networkx, lingpy, and cltoolkit:
$ pip install python-igraph
$ pip install networkx
$ pip install lingpy
In order to run the code below (code.py), you need to git-clone the lexibank_analysed package (https://github.com/lexibank/lexibank-analysed) and install it using pip. Then, you need to download the script and place it into the lexibank-analysed folder. Before running, you need to run the command cldfbench download cldfbench_lexibank_analysed.py in order to download all individual datasets. After that, you can just run the script typing python code.py. The output looks as follows:
| Dataset | Concepts | Languages | Words | Cognates | Singletons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bdpa | 519 | 538 | 50095 | 750 | 0 |
| blustaustronesian | 210 | 20 | 4358 | 321 | 2409 |
| bowernpny | 344 | 190 | 44876 | 4494 | 25054 |
| cals |