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Areal feature and Comparative linguistics

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Difference between Areal feature and Comparative linguistics

Areal feature vs. Comparative linguistics

In linguistics, areal features are elements shared by languages or dialects in a geographic area, particularly when the languages are not descended from a common ancestor language. Comparative linguistics (originally comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness.

Similarities between Areal feature and Comparative linguistics

Areal feature and Comparative linguistics have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Comparative method, Genetic relationship (linguistics), Language contact, Language family, Linguistic typology, Loanword, Mass comparison.

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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Genetic relationship (linguistics)

In linguistics, genetic relationship is the usual term for the relationship which exists between languages that are members of the same language family.

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Language contact

Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Linguistic typology

Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features.

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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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Areal feature and Comparative linguistics Comparison

Areal feature has 58 relations, while Comparative linguistics has 73. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 5.34% = 7 / (58 + 73).

References

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