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<p><b>Comparative linguistics</b> is a branch of <a href="page.php?w=historical_linguistics">historical linguistics</a> that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness.</p>

<p><a href="page.php?w=Genetic_relationship_%28linguistics%29">Genetic relatedness</a> implies a common origin or <a href="page.php?w=proto-language">proto-language</a> and comparative linguistics aims to construct <a href="page.php?w=language_family">language families</a>, to reconstruct proto-languages and specify the changes that have</p><p>
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