Associations to the word «Glottochronology»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY, noun. The determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language; "he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages".

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis