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Lexicostatistics

Definition: Lexicostatistics

Lexicostatistics

Noun

1. A statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language.

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Misspellings: Lexicostatistics

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"Lexicostatistics" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lexiconstatistics. (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Lexicostatistics

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lexicostatistics involves measuring the percentage of cognates (that is, similar words with similar meanings in two languages where the similarity is attributable to descent from a common ancestral form in an ancestral language) in "basic word lists". The larger the percentage of cognates, the more recently the two languages being compared are presumed to have separated.

See also: Glottochronology.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lexicostatistics."

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Anagrams: Lexicostatistics

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Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-i-l-o-s-s-s-t-t-t-x"

-5 letters: socialistic, socialities, tactilities.

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Alternative Orthography: Lexicostatistics


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