Lexicostatistics

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Noun

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

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derivation etymology glossematics grammar lexicology linguistics

Etymology

From lexico- + statistics.

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