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

• Bantu expansionRelated: Linguistic reconstruction helps estimate relationships and branching among Bantu languages.

• Oriental studiesRelated: Language comparison helped scholars classify and connect languages across the field’s regions.

• Proto-Indo-EuropeansRelated: It helps distinguish inherited similarities from borrowing among Indo-European languages.

• Semitic languagesRelated: Regular sound correspondences let scholars infer shared ancestry across Semitic branches.

• Wilhelm von HumboldtRelated: Humboldt used cross-language comparison to investigate how languages organize thought.

• AvestanRelated: It uses Avestan alongside other Indo-European languages to reconstruct earlier forms.

• Mary HaasRelated: Haas’s comparisons of Indigenous languages contributed evidence about their structures and relationships.

• TurkologyRelated: It establishes how Turkic languages descend from earlier forms.

• Fula languageRelated: It helps distinguish inherited Fula features from later contact and regional change.

• Bedřich HroznýRelated: Hrozný’s argument depended on comparing Hittite forms with known Indo-European languages.

• Colin RenfrewRelated: Linguistic reconstruction supplies evidence that must be reconciled with Renfrew’s archaeological chronology.

• Semitic studiesRelated: It establishes relationships among Semitic languages and supports historical reconstruction.