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A statistical technique used in glottochronology
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lexicostatistics
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n. Statistical estimation of the degree of linguistic divergence between two languages, based on the proportion of cognates.
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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 ...
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n. a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language