comparative linguistics in English
noun
1
the study of similarities and differences between languages, in particular the comparison of related languages with a view to reconstructing forms in their lost parent languages.
Such sound shifts in comparative linguistics parallel, almost uncannily, the slow march of genetic mutations as offspring populations gradually separate from a parent stock.
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1. 3 It is an important work about the nineteenth century's Hesperian depictive linguistics and comparative linguistics combining with the research of Beijing Mandarin.
2. →Coptic keyboard • Coptic language: a course of lessons, by Nabil Isshak (2006) • The Egyptian-Coptic language, by Eitan Grossman & Tonio Sebastian Richter (2014) • studies about the Coptic language, by Tonio Sebastian Richter • Egyptian-Coptic and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Fink, early encounters (2015) • Coptic noun phrases by Egedi Barbara, thesis (2012)