Which language gives you more?
Pick up to 4 languages and see them measured against each other: how many words reach half of everyday speech, how much of the language the top 100 carries, and how steeply each frequency curve falls away.
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| Measure | Malay |
|---|---|
| Corpus size Tokens of subtitle dialogue counted. More data means a steadier ranking | 17.5M |
| Distinct word forms Unique surface forms found. A measure of morphology, not of quality | 143.8K |
| Words for half of speech Fewer is better. Less vocabulary buys more of the language | 108 |
| Words for 80% Entries needed to cover 80% of running text | 1,425 |
| Top 100 covers Share of all speech carried by the 100 most common entries | 49.0% |
| Top 10 covers Share carried by the ten most common entries alone | 17.4% |
| Whole list covers Share of running text the full ranked list accounts for | 92.2% |
| Promoted phrases Multi-word units ranked alongside single words | 661 |
| Average word length Characters per word across the top 1,000. Descriptive, not a virtue | 5.9 |
Where each language's weight sits
Share of running text carried by each band. A front-loaded language rewards a small vocabulary more.
| Band | Malay |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 49.0% |
| 101–500 | 20.7% |
| 501–1,000 | 7.0% |
| 1,001–2,000 | 6.2% |
| 2,001–4,000 | 5.2% |
| 4,001–8,000 | 4.0% |
The five most common words in each
Ranked within their own corpus, translated to English.
Malay
- 1 saya I
- 2 yang which / that
- 3 aku I / me
- 4 awak you
- 5 dia he/she
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