TABLE 1.
Our results against the Gold Standard.
| Group | Languages | UPGMA | BEAST | |
| 1 | Sinitic | Mandarin, Cantonese | YES | YES |
| 2 | Dravidian | Tamil, Telugu | YES | YES |
| 3 | Basque | Basque_Central, Basque_Western | YES | YES |
| 4 | Uralic | Mari_1, Mari_2, Udmurt_1, Udmurt_2, Hungarian, Khanty_1, Khanty_2, Estonian, Finnish | YES | NOa |
| 5 | Altaic | Kazakh, Kirghiz, Turkish, Yakut, Uzbek, Evenki, Even_1, Even_2, Buryat | YES | NO |
| 6 | IE | Irish, Welsh, Marathi, Hindi, Pashto, Greek, Greek_Cypriot, Greek_Calabria_1, Greek_Calabria_2, Greek_Salento, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Polish, Russian, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Dutch, English, Afrikaans, French, Casalasco, Reggio_Emilia, Parma, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Siciliano_Ragusa, Siciliano_Mussomeli, Salentino, Calabrese_Southern, Italian, Barese, Campano, Teramano, Calabrese_Northern | YES | YES |
| 7 | NE-Caucasian | Archi, Lak | YES | YES |
| 8 | Balto-Finnic | Estonian, Finnish | YES | YES |
| 9 | Ugric | Hungarian, Khanty_1, Khanty_2 | YES | YES |
| 10 | Turkic | Kazakh, Kirghiz, Turkish, Yakut, Uzbek | YES | YES |
| 11 | Tungusic | Evenki, Even_1, Even_2 | YES | YES |
| 12 | Kipchakb | Kazakh, Kirghiz | YES | YES |
| 13 | Celtic | Irish, Welsh | YES | YES |
| 14 | Indo-Iranian | Hindi, Marathi, Pashto | YES | YES |
| 15 | Greek | Greek, Greek_Cypriot, Greek_Calabria_1, Greek_Calabria_2, Greek_Salento | YES | YES |
| 16 | Slavic | Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Polish, Russian | YES | YES |
| 17 | Germanic | Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Dutch, English, Afrikaans | YES | YES |
| 18 | Romance | French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, Casalasco, Parma, Reggio_Emilia, Siciliano_Ragusa, Siciliano_Mussomeli, Salentino, Calabrese_Southern, Barese, Campano, Teramano, Calabrese_Northern | YES | YES |
| 19 | Indo-Aryan | Hindi, Marathi | YES | YES |
| 20 | South-Slavic | Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian | NO | NO |
| 21 | North Germanic | Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic | NO | YES |
| 22 | West Germanic | German, Dutch, Afrikaans, English | NO | YES |
| 23 | Continental West-Germanic | German, Dutch, Afrikaansc | YES | YES |
| 24 | Ibero-Romance | Spanish, Portuguese | YES | YES |
aRecall that the Uralic node in the BEAST tree presented in the text is the product of an explicit constraint placed on this set of languages. bNorthwestern Turkic, Johanson and Csató (1998). cWe included the latter subfamily following Hutterer (1975, p. 195).