Glottochronology
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title:
Glottochronology
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Glottochronology is the part of lexicostatistics which involves comparative linguistics and deals with the chronological relationship between languages. The idea was developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1950s in his article on Salish internal relationships. He developed the idea under two assumptions: there indeed exists a relatively stable basic vocabulary in all languages of the world; and, any replacements happen in a way analogous to radioactive decay in a constant percentage per time elapsed.
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Part of lexicostatistics dealing with the chronological relationship between languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology
date created:
2002-09-17T21:53:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T19:07:34Z
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