Original scientific paper

The distant genetic relatedness of languages

Ranko Matasović ; Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za opću lingvistiku

Abstract

In this paper a new m ethod for assessing the distant genetic relatedness o f languages
is proposed, and applied to three “Nostratic” protolanguages. However,
the statistical analysis o f sound correspondences in the reconstructed basic
vocabularies of PIE, Uralic, and Kartvelian protolanguages shows that the distribution
o f probabilities o f those correspondences does not differ significantly
from the expected distribution of probabilities of random correspondences.

Keywords

genetic relatedness; basic vocabulary; Indo-European; Uralic; Kartvelian; Nostratic

Hrčak ID:

180281

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/180281

Publication date:

21.6.1999.

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