GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language

Example:

he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("glottochronology" is a kind of...):

chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)

Derivation:

glottochronological (pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source)

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