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Linguistic reconstruction

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What is LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION? What does LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION mean?

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Intro to Historical Linguistics: Cognates, Borrowed Words & Chance Resemblance (lesson 2 of 4)

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Miriwoong: The Australian language barely anybody speaks - BBC News

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Internal reconstruction is a method of reconstructing an earlier state in a language's history

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Sound Change - Regular vs. Sporadic Change (part 1 of 5)

Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages. There are two kinds of reconstruction:Internal reconstruction uses irregularities in a single language to make inferences about an earlier stage of that language – that is, it is based on evidence from that language alone. Comparative reconstruction, usually referred to just as reconstruction, establishes features of the ancestor of two or more related languages, belonging to the same language family, by means of the comparative method. A language reconstructed in this way is often referred to as a proto-language ; examples include Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Dravidian.
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