lexicostatistical
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lexicostatistical — lex·i·co·statistical … English syllables
lexicostatistical — adjective see lexicostatistic … Useful english dictionary
Lexicostatistics — is an approach to comparative linguistics that involves quantitative comparison of lexical cognates. Lexicostatistics is related to the comparative method but does not reconstruct a proto language. It is to be distinguished from glottochronology … Wikipedia
Quantitative comparative linguistics — is a branch of comparative linguistics that applies mathematical models to the problem of classifying language relatedness. This includes the use of computational phylogenetics and cladistics to define an optimal tree (or network) to represent a… … Wikipedia
Hawaiian language — Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Spoken in Hawaiʻi: concentrated on Niʻihau and Hawaiʻi, but speakers throughout the Hawaiian Islands and the U.S. mainland … Wikipedia
Glottochronology — refers to methods in historical linguistics used to estimate the time at which languages diverged, based on the assumption that the basic (core) vocabulary of a language changes at a constant average rate. This assumption, originally put forward… … Wikipedia
Liste Swadesh — La liste Swadesh est une série de mots établie par le linguiste américain Morris Swadesh, dans les années 1940 1950, utilisée dans la linguistique historique et comparée. Pour créer sa liste, Swadesh a choisi un vocabulaire de base que l on… … Wikipédia en Français
Малайско-полинезийские языки — австронезийские языки, языковая семья, включающая языки четырёх традиционно выделяемых групп: индонезийские, полинезийские, меланезийские и микронезийские языки. Несмотря на довольно слабую изученность этих языков, существование… … Большая советская энциклопедия
Altaic languages — Infobox Language family name=Altaic region=East, North, Central, and West Asia and Eastern Europe familycolor=Altaic family=One of the world s primary language families proto name=Proto Altaic child1=Turkic child2=Mongolic child3=Tungusic… … Wikipedia
Swadesh list — A Swadesh list is one of several lists of vocabulary with basic meanings, developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1940 50s, which is used in lexicostatistics (quantitative language relatedness assessment) and glottochronology (language divergence… … Wikipedia
