Swadesh used 100 (earlier 200) items that are assumed to be cognate (on the basis of phonetic similarity) in the languages being compared, though other lists have also been used.

Publications See also Chebyshev cube root Chebyshev distance Chebyshev filter, a family of analog filters in electronics and signal processing Chebyshev function in number theory Chebyshev polynomials and the Chebyshev form Chebyshev's inequality in probability and statistics Chebyshev's sum inequality Chebyshev equation Chebyshev linkage, a straight line generating linkages Roberts Chebyshev theorem on the generation of cognate coupler curves.