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25 relations: Aharon Dolgopolsky, American linguistics, Amerind languages, Areal feature, Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, Classification of the Japonic languages, Comparative linguistics, Comparative method, Comparison, Eurasiatic languages, Glottochronology, Historical linguistics, Indo-European studies, Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Islamic studies by author (non-Muslim or academic), Lexicostatistics, Lumpers and splitters, Merritt Ruhlen, Origin of language, Paleolinguistics, Proto-Human language, Pseudoscientific language comparison, Quantitative comparative linguistics, Swadesh list, The Languages of Africa.
Aharon Dolgopolsky
Aharon Dolgopolsky (אהרון דולגופולסקי, Арон Борисович Долгопольский; 18 November 1930 – 20 July 2012) was a Russian-Israeli linguist and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
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American linguistics
The history of linguistics in the United States begins with William Dwight Whitney, the first U.S.-taught academic linguist, who founded the American Philological Association in 1869.
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Amerind languages
Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen.
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Areal feature
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.
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Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
The Chukotko-Kamchatkan or Chukchi–Kamchatkan languages are a language family of extreme northeastern Siberia.
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Classification of the Japonic languages
The classification of the Japonic languages (Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages) is unclear.
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Comparative linguistics
Comparative linguistics (originally comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness.
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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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Comparison
Comparison is the one for which things compare.
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Eurasiatic languages
Eurasiatic is a proposed language macrofamily that would include many language families historically spoken in northern, western, and southern Eurasia.
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Glottochronology
Glottochronology (from Attic Greek γλῶττα "tongue, language" and χρóνος "time") is the part of lexicostatistics dealing with the chronological relationship between 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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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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Intercontinental Dictionary Series
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series is a large database of topical vocabulary lists in various world languages.
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Islamic studies by author (non-Muslim or academic)
Included are prominent authors who have made studies concerning Islam, the religion and its civilization, and the culture of Muslim peoples.
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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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Lumpers and splitters
Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories.
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Merritt Ruhlen
Merritt Ruhlen (born 1944) is an American linguist who has worked on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the origin and evolution of modern humans.
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Origin of language
The evolutionary emergence of language in the human species has been a subject of speculation for several centuries.
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Paleolinguistics
Paleolinguistics is a term used by some linguists for the study of the distant human past by linguistic means.
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Proto-Human language
The Proto-Human language (also Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of the world's languages.
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Pseudoscientific language comparison
Pseudoscientific language comparison is a form of pseudo-scholarship that has the objective of establishing historical associations between languages by naive postulations of similarities between them.
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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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Swadesh list
The Swadesh list is a classic compilation of basic concepts for the purposes of historical-comparative linguistics.
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The Languages of Africa
The Languages of Africa is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which the author sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_comparison
