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Julielai Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies
What is glottochronology?
0 Help! I was reading a linguistic article in The New Yorker Magazine and stumbled upon this: 02 br
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00 Eyak is thought to have broken off from the even more ancient linguistic branch that led to proto-Athabascan sometime around 1000B.C. (a technique known as "glottochronology" -- the phonetic analog of carbon dating--can be used to determine the point at which related languages diverged.) 02 br
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00 I looked the term up in Wikipedia, but still don't have a clue what this is. Can someone give me an example? 0-
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00 Eyak is thought to have broken off from the even more ancient linguistic branch that led to proto-Athabascan sometime around 1000B.C. (a technique known as "glottochronology" -- the phonetic analog of carbon dating--can be used to determine the point at which related languages diverged.) 02 br
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00 I looked the term up in Wikipedia, but still don't have a clue what this is. Can someone give me an example? 0-
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0 "Glotto-chronology" is "glosso-chronology". [url=" 05 0 00 "]Here[/url] I found an article using the term. 02 br 02 br 00 Indeed, we can speak with certainty of Indo-European history and geography only in the vaguest, most general terms, which has not stopped scholars, however, from trying various means to determine the time and location of the original Indo-Europeans.
- 0 "Glotto-chronology" is "glosso-chronology".
- [url=" 05 0 00 "]Here[/url] I found an article using the term.
- 02 br 02 br 00 Indeed, we can speak with certainty of Indo-European history and geography only in the vaguest, most general terms, which has not stopped scholars, however, from trying various means to determine the time and location of the original Indo-Europeans.
- For instance, based on calculations of the general rate at which languages change, attempts have been made to reason out how long ago Proto-Indo-European began to break apart.
- That is, by looking at how different its daughter languages are, it may be possible to get a sense of how long it took to create that number of variations in grammar and vocabulary evidenced in Indo-European languages.
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0 "Glotto-chronology" is "glosso-chronology". [url=" 05 0 00 "]Here[/url] I found an article using the term. 02 br
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00 Indeed, we can speak with certainty of Indo-European history and geography only in the vaguest, most general terms, which has not stopped scholars, however, from trying various means to determine the time and location of the original Indo-Europeans. For
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00 Indeed, we can speak with certainty of Indo-European history and geography only in the vaguest, most general terms, which has not stopped scholars, however, from trying various means to determine the time and location of the original Indo-Europeans. For
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