Glottochronology

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Glottochronology is an approach in historical linguistics that attempts to determine when and how two languages diverged from a common source or proto-language.

Glottochronology usually uses lexicostatistics to determine how many shared cognates two languages have and how long is has been since the two languages diverged.

The study of glottochronology is controversial.

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