lì​shǐ​bǐ​jiào​yǔ​yán​xué

historical-comparative linguistics

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历史比较语言学/ 歷史比較語言學 lì​shǐ​bǐ​jiào​yǔ​yán​xué historical-comparative linguistics

a branch of linguistics that studies how languages change over time and the relationships between related languages; it uses comparative methods to reconstruct ancestral forms and establish family trees

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