KnowraComparative linguisticsLinked fromLinked fromThe 26 pages that link to Comparative linguistics, each with the reason it gives.All 26Broader topic 1Related 12Narrower topic 13Grimm's lawNarrower topic: Grimm's law helped establish comparative method as a way to reconstruct language history.William JonesNarrower topic: Jones’s comparison of Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin became a landmark in this method.Kurgan hypothesisNarrower topic: Linguistic reconstruction supplies the language history that migration models seek to explain.Franz BoppNarrower topic: Bopp’s work helped establish this field as a methodical study of language history.Friedrich SchlegelNarrower topic: Schlegel's comparisons helped establish this field of inquiry.Grassmann's lawNarrower topic: The law was identified through comparison of Greek and Sanskrit forms.Rasmus RaskNarrower topic: Rask used comparison across languages to argue for historical relationships rather than rely on resemblance alone.August SchleicherNarrower topic: This was the method underlying Schleicher’s comparisons of Indo-European languages.August Wilhelm SchlegelNarrower topic: Schlegel’s work belongs to the early formation of comparative language study.Gothic languageNarrower topic: Gothic data help linguists compare Germanic languages and reconstruct their history.Max MüllerNarrower topic: Müller used comparison among Indo-European languages to reconstruct linguistic history.Jernej KopitarNarrower topic: Kopitar used comparison across Slavic languages to argue about their histories and connections.Dravidian peoplesNarrower topic: Its methods reconstruct language ancestry without treating linguistic kinship as proof of biological ancestry.