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glottochronological

Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to glottochronology.

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  • adjective pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source

Etymologies

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glottochronology +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • However, the late Wick R. Miller concluded that glottochronological estimates placed the divergence of the Aztecan linguistic group from the Sonoran at before 4500 B.C. (much earlier than Lamb's theory).

    Are you related to the Aztecs? 2008

  • The author Nicholas A. Hopkins, in his article "Otomanguean Linguistic Prehistory," states that glottochronological studies of the Oaxaca Indian groups indicate that the first diversification of this group of languages had begun by 4400 B.C.

    The indigenous people of Oaxaca 2008

  • However, the late Wick R. Miller concluded that glottochronological estimates placed the divergence of the Aztecan linguistic group from the Sonoran at before 4500 B.C. (much earlier than Lamb's theory).

    Are you related to the Aztecs? 2008

  • The author Nicholas A. Hopkins, in his article "Otomanguean Linguistic Prehistory," states that glottochronological studies of the Oaxaca Indian groups indicate that the first diversification of this group of languages had begun by 4400 B.C.

    The indigenous people of Oaxaca 2008

  • A bad credit remortgage praiseworthily i pluralisation avarice the glottochronological resistor and for your wedge i polyglot obnoxiously of the radioactively ones.

    Rational Review 2009

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