Associations to the word «Glottochronology»
Adjective
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Wiktionary
GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY, noun. The study of languages to determine when they diverged from being the same language.
Dictionary definition
GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY, noun. The determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language; "he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.