Concept information
Preferred term
glottochronology
Definition
- 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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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/glottochronology
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