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26 relations: Attic Greek, Basic English, Cognate, Comparative method, Creole language, Danish language, Dolgopolsky list, George Kingsley Zipf, Historical linguistics, Icelandic language, Indo-European studies, John McWhorter, Knut Bergsland, Leipzig–Jakarta list, Lexicostatistics, Loanword, Mass comparison, Morris Swadesh, Phylogenetics, Proto-language, Quantitative comparative linguistics, Radioactive decay, Riksmål, Robert Lees (linguist), Sergei Starostin, Swadesh list.
Attic Greek
Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of ancient Attica, including the city of Athens.
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Basic English
Basic English is an English-based controlled language created by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language.
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Cognate
In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin.
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Comparative method
In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, in order to extrapolate back to infer the properties of that ancestor.
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Creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status.
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Dolgopolsky list
The Dolgopolsky list is a word list compiled by Aharon Dolgopolsky in 1964.
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George Kingsley Zipf
George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), was an American linguist and philologist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages.
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Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics, also called diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.
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Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct.
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John McWhorter
John Hamilton McWhorter V (born October 6, 1965) is an American academic and linguist who is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he teaches linguistics, American studies, philosophy, and music history.
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Knut Bergsland
Knut Bergsland (7 March 1914 – 9 July 1998) was a Norwegian linguist.
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Leipzig–Jakarta list
The Leipzig–Jakarta list is a 100-word list of words used by linguists to test the degree of chronological separation of languages by comparing words that are resistant to borrowing.
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Lexicostatistics
Lexicostatistics is a method of comparative linguistics that involves comparing the percentage of lexical cognates between languages to determine their relationship.
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Loanword
A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.
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Mass comparison
Mass comparison is a method developed by Joseph Greenberg to determine the level of genetic relatedness between languages.
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Morris Swadesh
Morris Swadesh (January 22, 1909 – July 20, 1967) was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.
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Proto-language
A proto-language, in the tree model of historical linguistics, is a language, usually hypothetical or reconstructed, and usually unattested, from which a number of attested known languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family.
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Quantitative comparative linguistics
Statistical methods have been used in comparative linguistics since at least the 1950s (see Swadesh list).
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Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation, such as an alpha particle, beta particle with neutrino or only a neutrino in the case of electron capture, gamma ray, or electron in the case of internal conversion.
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Riksmål
Riksmål is a written Norwegian language form, meaning the National Language, based on the Dano-Norwegian language used by the upper class in Christiania (modern Oslo) in the 19th century.
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Robert Lees (linguist)
Robert B. Lees (9 July 1922 – 6 December 1996) was an American linguist.
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Sergei Starostin
Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Cyrillic: Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин, March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language of still earlier date.
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Swadesh list
The Swadesh list is a classic compilation of basic concepts for the purposes of historical-comparative linguistics.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology
