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lexicostatistics

lexicostatistics noun: a statistical estimation of the degree of linguistic divergence between two languages, based on the proportion of cognates.

Noun

lexicostatistics (uncountable)

  1. A statistical estimation of the degree of linguistic divergence between two languages, based on the proportion of cognates.

Origin of lexicostatistics

From lexico- + statistics.

Words formed from lexicostatistics

Questions about lexicostatistics

What does lexicostatistics mean?
Lexicostatistics means a statistical estimation of the degree of linguistic divergence between two languages, based on the proportion of cognates.
What part of speech is lexicostatistics?
Lexicostatistics is a noun.

Words near lexicostatistics in the dictionary

  1. lexicostatistic
  2. lexicostatistical
  3. lexicostatistically
  4. lexicostatistician
  5. lexicostatisticians
  6. lexicostatistics
  7. lexicosyntactic
  8. lexicosyntactic pattern
  9. lexicosyntactic patterns
  10. lexicosyntax
  11. lexidronam

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