Relating to glottochronology; involving the method of dating language splits by measuring vocabulary differences between related languages.
From 'glotto-' (language) + 'chronological' (time-based). The term emerged in mid-20th-century linguistics when scholars developed statistical methods to estimate when languages diverged.
Glottochronological analysis lets linguists estimate when English and German split from their common ancestor—it's like genetic testing but for languages, revealing family trees thousands of years old.
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