Historical linguistics/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Comparative linguistics [r]: (also known as comparative philology) A branch of historical linguistics that uses a number of methods of comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. ^[e]
• Comparative philology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Descriptive linguistics [r]: The work of analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Proto-Indo-Europeans [r]: Prehistoric people who spoke a language reconstructed as 'Proto-Indo-European', the ancestor of many modern European languages. ^[e]
• Nepali language [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. ^[e]
• Syntax (linguistics) [r]: The study of the rules, or 'patterned relations', that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases to form sentences. ^[e]
• Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. ^[e]
• Anthropological linguistics [r]: The study of language through human genetics and human development. ^[e]