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Comparative linguistics

Comparative linguistics logo #21000 Comparative linguistics (originally comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic relatedness implies a common origin or proto-language, and comparative linguistics aims to construct language families, to reconstruct proto-languages and spe...
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comparative linguistics

comparative linguistics logo #21003study of the relationships or correspondences between two or more languages and the techniques used to discover whether the languages have a common ... [13 related articles]
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comparative linguistics

comparative linguistics logo #21199the study of the correspondences between languages that have a common origin.
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