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"The only way to establish absolute linguistic chronologies is to correlate linguistic facts with dates fixed by other means."
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Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical linguistics involves several key areas of study, including the reconstruction of ancestral languages, the classification of languages into families, and the anal
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"Too many comparative historical linguists want to dig up Troy, linguistically speaking. They consider it more important that comparative historical linguists shed light on prehistoric migrations than to shed light on the nature of language change [...] I do not consider comparative historical linguistics a branch of prehistory, and I sincerely believe that if we cared less about dates, maps and trees and more about language change, there’d be more real progress in that field."
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