glottochronology

Words with a similar base: glottochronology

'glottochronology'

[glottochronology.n.01] as in: the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language

Examples:
he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages

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					glottochronology (English)
├── chronology (English)
│   ├── -logy (English)
│   └── chrono- (English)
│       └── χρόνος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
└── glotto- (English)

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