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Definition of Glottochronology
1. Noun. The determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language. "He mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages"
Definition of Glottochronology
1. Noun. The study of languages to determine when they diverged from being the same language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glottochronology
Literary usage of Glottochronology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment by Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal, Paul Black (1992)
"This method, known as glottochronology. is not used in this work. ... to make a
One additional glottochronology is that all the same replacement rate. ..."
2. Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment: Transactions, APS by Isidore Dyen (2007)
"A control case for glottochronology. American Anthropologist 66.987-1006. ...
The validity of the mathematical model of glottochronology. ..."
3. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"... 4889; glottochronology, 4880; historical linguistics, 4876, 4881-4886;
lexicostatistics, 4880, 4887; linguistics, 4871-4872, 4875, 4878, 4918; ..."
4. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"... called glottochronology; to contracts. Marriage contracts, such as the cuneiform
tablet of Kish, dated 1820 BCE, or contracts documenting the sale of ..."
5. Afrika und Übersee by Carl Meinhof (1845)
"(p. 130). Actually we know nothing about the history of Ma'a and relati- vely
little about its present structure. glottochronology is dead and the practice ..."
6. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"7-80. Bergsland, Knut, and Hans Vogt. 1967. "On the validity of glottochronology,"
Current Anthropology, 3, pp. 115-129. ..."
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