Linguists predict unknown words using language comparison

(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) Researchers from SOAS University of London and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have published a new paper in the renowned international journal for historical linguistics, Diachronica. Their paper describes an experiment that illustrates how the classical method for the reconstruction of unattested languages can also be used to predict hitherto undocumented words in poorly described and endangered languages of India.
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