This documentation is for version 2.0.dev, which is not released yet.
LingPy is a suite of open-source Python modules for sequence comparison, distance analyses, data operations and visualization methods in quantitative historical linguistics.
The main idea of LingPy is to provide a software package which, on the one hand, integrates different methods for data analysis in quantitative historical linguistics within a single framework, and, on the other hand, serves as an interface for the preparation and analysis of linguistic data using biological software packages.
With the help of LingPy, users can:
LingPy is a library written in the Python programming language. It can be used directly in the Python interpreter or imported into Python scripts. See the LingPy README file for instructions. For more information about Python, see http://www.python.org for details.