Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Term indicating an early stage of a language or language family that is not historically attested but rather reconstructed through the comparative method (e.g. Indo-European). (
also comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, genetic tree theory, reconstruction)
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