comparative method

English

Noun

comparative method (plural not attested)

1. (linguistics) A technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with a common ancestor.

Translations

technique for studying the development of languages

• French: méthode comparative f
• Galician: método comparativo m
• German: historisch-vergleichende Methode f
• Portuguese: método comparativo m
• Romanian: metodă comparativă (ro) f
• Slovak: komparatívna metóda f
• Spanish: método comparativo m
• Tagalog: hambinging pamamaraan

See also

• internal reconstruction

Further reading

• comparative method on Wikipedia.Wikipedia