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- adjective pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages
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15To initiate the lexicostatistic exercise, however, one must first determine whether the words claimed to be inherited from a proto-language are indeed shared retentions of particular old cognates, that is, if they truly stem from a common root that shared a common meaning.
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