Glottochronology (from Attic Greek γλῶττα tongue, language and χρόνος time) is the part of lexicostatistics which involves comparative linguistics and...

quantitative assessment of the genealogical relatedness of languages) and glottochronology (the dating of language divergence). For instance, the terms on a Swadesh...

numerals in individual languages: Blažek, Václav. 2007. On application of glottochronology for Saharan languages. Blench, Roger. m.s. Saharan and Songhay form...

found but there is no absolute date estimates utilizing this system. Glottochronology enables absolute dates to be estimated. Shared cognates (cognates meaning...

sunawachi goi tokeigaku no hoho ni tsuite ("Concerning the Method of Glottochronology and Lexicostatistics"), Gengo kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society...

fieldwork throughout North America. He was one of the pioneers of glottochronology and lexicostatistics, and is known for his creation of the Swadesh...

does not reconstruct a proto-language. It is to be distinguished from glottochronology, which attempts to use lexicostatistical methods to estimate the length...

sub-branch of the Afroasiatic language family's Semitic branch. In his glottochronology-based classification, Alexander Militarev presents the Modern South...

raiding by the Hausa people, but this theory has been contested. Using glottochronology, historians have situated Proto-Fang speakers in the Southern Cameroon...

between the groups in the distant past, perhaps 3,500–3,800 years ago. Glottochronology studies suggest the split occurred between about 1500 and 1800 BCE...