lexicostatistics
Noun
- a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
- Statistical estimation of the degree of linguistic divergence between two languages, based on the proportion of cognates.
Origin / Etymology
From lexico- + statistics.
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