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paleolinguistics en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌpeɪ.li.əʊ.lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪks/

Etymology

From paleo- + linguistics.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The study of the distant human past by linguistic means.
  2. (uncountable) The study of prehistoric languages using linguistic evidence alone to try to reconstruct them.

Relateds

archaeolinguistics · paleolinguist · linguistics

Translations (4)

ru палеолингви́стика (study of the distant human past by linguistic means) · de Paläolinguistik (study of the distant human past by linguistic means) · es paleolingüística (study of the distant human past by linguistic means) · nl paleolinguïstiek (study of the distant human past by linguistic means)