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Glottochronology

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Noun

1. glottochronology

the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language

Example Sentences:
'he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Glottochronology

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noun
the use of lexicostatistics to establish that languages are historically related

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Glottochronology

see synonyms of glottochronology
noun
a method for estimating the dates when the branches of a family of languages separated from the parent language and from one another

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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