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ERIC Number: EJ411897
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Are the Major Agglutinative Languages Genetically Related?
Hakola, H. P. A.
Language Sciences, v11 n4 p367-94 1989
Examination of accidental CVC and CV correspondences among languages representing 5 large families of agglutinative languages found that comparison pairs had much more similarity between basic 100-word vocabularies than would have been possible by mere chance, supporting the hypothesis that those 5 language families were mutually related. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Finnish, Glottochronology, Japanese, Language Classification, Language Research, Language Universals, Lexicology, Mongolian, Quechua, Tamil, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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