Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 7, 1998.
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
Publication date:
21.6.1999.
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