Usually means: Dating languages by lexical decay.
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  1. glottochronology: Merriam-Webster
  2. glottochronology: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glottochronology: Collins English Dictionary
  4. glottochronology: Vocabulary.com
  5. glottochronology: Wiktionary
  6. glottochronology: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. glottochronology: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. glottochronology: Dictionary.com
  9. Glottochronology: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. glottochronology: Rhymezone
  11. glottochronology: FreeDictionary.org
  12. glottochronology: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. glottochronology: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glottochronology)

▸ noun:  The study of languages to determine when they diverged from being the same language.

Similar:
glottochronologist, diachrony, glottogony, diachronic linguistics, comparative linguistics, phylolinguistics, historical linguistics, chronolect, glossogenesis, polyglottology, more...

Opposite:
etymology.

Types:
lexicostatistics, lexicostat, more...

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Similar:
glottochronologist, diachrony, glottogony, diachronic linguistics, comparative linguistics, phylolinguistics, historical linguistics, chronolect, glossogenesis, polyglottology, more...

Opposite:
etymology.

Types:
lexicostatistics, lexicostat, more...



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