Concept information
Preferred term
linguistic reconstruction
Definition
- One of the most important tasks of historical or comparative linguistics is to try to establish a relationship between or among two or more contemporary languages based on a supposed common ancestry. The tool most often used to do this is linguistic reconstruction. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Linguistic Reconstruction]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/linguistic_reconstruction
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