Associations to the word «Glottochronology»

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.
Alexander Pope