Identifying cognates and borrowings by means of computational approaches has attracted considerable attention in recent years (Hall and Klein, 2010;Tsvetkov et al., 2015;Ciobanu and Dinu, 2015).
few studies went beyond this step, and beyond the comparative method, to automate the process of proto-language reconstruction (Oakes, 2000;Bouchard-Côté et al., 2013;.