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glottochronology  

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  • Glottochronology is a method that tries to calculate when two languages separated in the past. It is analogous to a kind of linguistic Carbon-14 test, but it usually cannot give absolute dates. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Glottochronology]

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