Actual Core Vocab Lists for Greek New Testament

Back in The Core Vocabulary of New Testament Greek I talked about Wilfred Major’s 2008 paper on core vocabulary lists for Classical Greek and provided code for producing the same for the Greek New Testament along with some discussion of the results. I didn’t actually include the full results, however.

Prompted by Paul-Nitz’s request on the B-Greek forum, I put together https://github.com/jtauber/core-gnt-vocab which includes not only the code but actually generated lists (currently 50% and 80% lemma lists).

I’ve included as a starting point glosses from Dodson but I’d love people to file issues (or even better, pull requests) if they have improvements they’d like to see.

I’m also interested if people think certain lexeme should be split like Major does (e.g. suppletive verbs).

You can get the raw lists at:

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By day I’m an entrepreneur, web technologist and open-source developer but my academic background is in linguistics (along with some classics, comparative philology, and educational statistics) and my main avocation is working on text, annotations, analysis and software relating to historical languages with a particular interest in facilitating better learning.

While my focus has mostly been on Biblical Greek, much of the work is highly relevant to other Hellenistic Greek texts, other dialects of Ancient Greek and, indeed, texts in completely different languages as well.

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