comparative linguistics

English

Noun

comparative linguistics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.

Derived terms

• comparative linguist

Translations

a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages

• Armenian: համեմատական լեզվաբանություն (hy) (hamematakan lezvabanutʿyun)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 比較語言學, 比较语言学 (bei⁵ gaau³ jyu⁵ jin⁴ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 比較語言學 (zh), 比较语言学 (zh) (bǐjiào yǔyánxué)

• Finnish: vertaileva kielitiede
• French: linguistique comparée f
• German: vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft f
• Irish: teangeolaíocht chomparáideach f

• Japanese: 比較言語学 (ja) (hikakugengogaku)
• Korean: 비교언어학 (bigyoeoneohak)
• Romanian: lingvistică comparativă f
• Russian: сравни́тельная лингви́стика f (sravnítelʹnaja lingvístika)
• Serbo-Croatian: poredbeno jezikoslovlje n
• Slovak: komparatívna jazykoveda f
• Tagalog: hambinging dalubwikaan
• Ukrainian: порівня́льна лінгві́стика f (porivnjálʹna linhvístyka), порівня́льне мовозна́вство n (porivnjálʹne movoznávstvo)