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Lexicostatistics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A statistical estimation of the degree of linguistic divergence between two languages, based on the proportion of cognates. uncountable
  2. 2
    a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language wordnet

Etymology

From lexico- + statistics.

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