This basic vocabulary list was used for a comparative lexicostatistical analysis of 17 Tibeto-Kanauri varieties. Most items were taken from Swadesh 1955 215, although some other concepts were added by the authors, notably numbers. The authors indicated those Swadesh items that were collected in Holman 2008 40 as globally ultra-stable items. Round was marked as an item in Swadesh’s list, although it could not be found there.