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The 26 pages that link to Cognate, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical linguisticsRelated: Cognates supply evidence for genetic relationships when their sound correspondences are regular.

• Indo-European languagesRelated: Cognates help establish relationships between Indo-European languages.

• Language familyRelated: Cognates provide evidence of inherited vocabulary across family members.

• Language isolateRelated: Cognates provide evidence of common descent when their sound patterns recur systematically.

• Proto-languageRelated: Cognates provide comparative evidence for shared ancestral vocabulary.

• Comparative linguisticsRelated: Cognates supply the lexical evidence compared across languages.

• EtymologyBroader topic: Cognates provide evidence for shared word ancestry.

• Sino-Tibetan languagesRelated: Cognates can reveal inherited vocabulary across Sino-Tibetan branches.

• William JonesRelated: Related vocabulary supplied evidence for the common ancestry Jones proposed.

• Indo-European studiesRelated: Cognates supply evidence for reconstructing inherited words and sound correspondences.

• LoanwordCompared with: Cognates share historical ancestry, whereas loanwords enter through later contact between languages.

• GlottochronologyBroader topic: Identifying cognates supplies the shared-word counts used in glottochronological estimates.

• Altaic languagesRelated: Cognates provide evidence of shared descent when their sound histories are regular.

• Indo-European linguisticsRelated: Cognates provide comparative data, but resemblance alone does not establish cognacy.

• Linguistic paleontologyRelated: Cognates across related languages provide the comparative evidence for ancestral vocabulary.

• Proto-Bantu languageRelated: Bantu cognates provide the recurring comparisons used to reconstruct Proto-Bantu vocabulary.

• Rasmus RaskRelated: Cognate words supplied evidence for the historical comparisons Rask made.

• Evolution of languagesRelated: Cognates preserve evidence of common ancestry when their sound correspondences are regular.

• Indo-European sound lawsRelated: Cognate sets supply the recurring evidence from which sound correspondences are identified.

• Linguistic reconstructionRelated: Cognates provide the comparable inherited material from which correspondences are established.

• Sound correspondenceRelated: Cognates supply comparable forms whose sounds can exhibit recurring correspondences.

• Nostratic languagesRelated: Nostratic comparisons must establish inherited cognates rather than chance similarities.

• LexicostatisticsBroader topic: The method counts cognates, not merely words that look or mean alike.

• Proto-Polynesian languageRelated: Cognate words provide evidence for reconstructing Proto-Polynesian vocabulary.

• Morris SwadeshRelated: Identifying cognates is central to the comparisons Swadesh sought to systematize.

• Proto-Indo-European mythologyBroader topic: Cognate divine names can support claims that a deity existed in the ancestral tradition.