Linguistic reconstruction
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linguistic-reconstruction-207-14684917
title:
Linguistic reconstruction
text:
Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages. There are two kinds of reconstruction:
- Internal reconstruction uses irregularities in a single language to make inferences about an earlier stage of that language – that is, it is based on evidence from that language alone.
- Comparative reconstruction, usually referred to just as reconstruction, establishes features of the ancestor of two or more relate
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Processes of understanding how earlier languages were spoken
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_reconstruction
date created:
2006-04-06T19:24:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:33:22Z
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