The Swadesh List
No, it is not an Indian Schindler's list. "It is a list of prescribed items of basic vocabulary (variously featuring 100, 200 or 207 items) in two or more related languages." as explained by Wikipedia. It is used to compare 2 languages supposed to have a common root to find out when the languages could have seperated. That is called Glottochronology.
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