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A study of the relationships or correspondences between the languages that have a common origin. Formerly known as Comparative Grammar, Comparative Philology.
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Why is the word for I know in Spanish "yo sé" and not "yo sabo"?
When I was learning Spanish last year (I didn't feel forced), I found a peculiar irregularity: the word for I know. It was yo sé, which made no sense to me. I want to know why it is yo sé and not yo s …
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When was Proto-Indo-Uralic spoken?
You have seen that I asked a question about Proto-Indo-Uralic and whether or not it could be reconstructed using Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic, and internal reconstruction in those branches. One p …
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Are there any languages with under 50% lexical similarity that could reasonably be considere...
When I was reading about mutual intelligibility one thing stood out to me: lexical similarity doesn't seem to directly correlate with mutual intelligibility potential. This makes sense because there a …
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