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comparative linguistics

noun
🔊/kəmˌpærətɪv lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
🔊/kəmˌpærətɪv lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
[uncountable]
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  1. the study of how related languages are similar and different, especially in order to discover things about a language that both these languages came from, and that no longer exists