glottochronological
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glottochronological — adjective pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source (Freq. 3) glottochronological studies • Pertains to noun: ↑glottochronology • Derivationally related forms: ↑glottochronology * * * |gläd.(ˌ)ō, ä(ˌ)tō+ adjective … Useful english dictionary
glottochronological — adjective see glottochronology … New Collegiate Dictionary
glottochronological — glot·to·chronological … English syllables
Mesoamerican Indian languages — Introduction also called Middle American Indian languages group of languages spoken in an area of the aboriginal New World that includes central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, parts of Honduras and Nicaragua, and… … Universalium
Glottochronology — refers to methods in historical linguistics used to estimate the time at which languages diverged, based on the assumption that the basic (core) vocabulary of a language changes at a constant average rate. This assumption, originally put forward… … Wikipedia
glottochronology — noun Date: 1953 a linguistic method that uses the rate of vocabulary replacement to estimate the date of divergence for distinct but genetically related languages • glottochronological adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
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North Caucasian languages — North Caucasian Caucasic Geographic distribution: Caucasus Linguistic classification: proposed language family, which is widely disputed; although links with other families have been proposed, none of these has received mainstream acceptance … Wikipedia
