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The 124 pages that link to Comparative method, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical linguisticsRelated: Regular correspondences across related languages let linguists infer shared ancestral forms.

• Indo-European languagesRelated: It supplies the evidence for reconstructing Proto-Indo-European and family relationships.

• Austronesian languagesRelated: It supports the reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian from daughter languages.

• Language familyRelated: It identifies inherited similarities that support grouping languages into families.

• Sound changeRelated: Regular sound correspondences let linguists infer changes absent from direct historical records.

• AnthropologyRelated: Comparison helps distinguish local particularities from broader patterns in human societies.

• Bantu languagesRelated: It helps establish relationships and reconstruct ancestral forms within Bantu.

• Language changeRelated: Regular correspondences help distinguish inherited change from accidental resemblance.

• Turkic languagesRelated: It underpins reconstructions of Proto-Turkic and tests proposed relationships within the family.

• Language isolateRelated: It is the main method used to test whether an isolate belongs to a family.

• Niger–Congo languagesRelated: Its evidence underlies arguments about Niger–Congo’s membership and subgrouping.

• Proto-Indo-European languageRelated: It supplies the central procedure for inferring Proto-Indo-European from its descendants.

• Proto-languageRelated: It identifies inherited sound correspondences that support a proto-language reconstruction.

• CognateRelated: It identifies cognates through recurring sound correspondences rather than superficial resemblance.

• Comparative linguisticsBroader topic: Its regular sound correspondences distinguish inherited similarities from accidental resemblance.

• Iranian languagesRelated: It supports the reconstruction of Proto-Iranian from regular correspondences.

• Jacob GrimmRelated: Grimm’s comparisons exemplify how regular correspondences can support historical reconstruction.

• Area studiesCompared with: Regional scholarship can prioritize contextual depth where comparison seeks cross-case patterns.

• Comparative mythologyRelated: Its demand for regular correspondences helps separate inherited mythic patterns from loose resemblance.

• EtymologyRelated: It identifies inherited word relationships through recurring sound correspondences.

• Proto-Indo-EuropeansRelated: It provides evidence for reconstructing the language associated with this population.

• Romance languagesRelated: It helps establish which similarities among Romance languages are inherited rather than borrowed.

• Edward Burnett TylorRelated: Tylor compared customs across societies to support general claims about cultural development.

• Proto-SlavicRelated: It provides the main evidence for reconstructing Proto-Slavic from its descendants.

• Polynesian languagesRelated: Comparison reconstructs Proto-Polynesian from descendant languages.

• Afroasiatic languagesNarrower topic: Historical linguists use it to test proposed relationships within Afroasiatic.

• James George FrazerRelated: Frazer’s sweeping comparisons make the method’s evidential strengths and risks especially visible.

• Sino-Tibetan languagesRelated: Researchers use it to test proposed groupings and reconstruct ancestral forms.

• Papuan languagesRelated: It distinguishes inherited similarities from resemblance caused by contact or chance.

• Proto-GermanicRelated: It supplies the central procedure for inferring Proto-Germanic forms from its descendants.

• Franz BoppRelated: Bopp’s grammatical comparisons exemplified the method later used to reconstruct language ancestry.

• Uralic languagesRelated: Regular sound correspondences, rather than surface resemblance, establish Uralic relationships.

• Indigenous languages of the AmericasRelated: It helps distinguish inherited relationships from similarities produced by contact.

• Indo-European studiesRelated: It establishes language relationships from recurring correspondences rather than superficial resemblance.

• Middle ChineseRelated: Sino-Xenic readings and Chinese varieties help test sound values proposed from rhyme books.

• GlottochronologyCompared with: Unlike glottochronology's rate-based dating, it establishes relationships through recurring sound correspondences.

• Indo-Aryan migrationRelated: Regular sound correspondences underpin the reconstruction of Indo-Aryan's ancestral languages.

• Linguistic areaRelated: It helps distinguish inherited similarities from traits acquired through contact.

• Nguni languagesRelated: It provides evidence for Nguni’s internal relationships and its place among Bantu languages.

• Altaic languagesNarrower topic: Claims for Altaic ancestry depend on whether comparisons meet this method’s standards.

• Anatolian hypothesisNarrower topic: It establishes the language family and ancestral forms whose spread the hypothesis explains.

• NeogrammariansRelated: Regular sound correspondences let linguists infer ancestral forms.

• Social evolutionismRelated: Evolutionists used cross-cultural comparisons to place societies in proposed sequences.

• Comparative politicsRelated: It supplies the core logic for drawing explanations from political similarities and differences.

• Indo-European linguisticsRelated: It turns recurring similarities across Indo-European languages into evidence of common ancestry.

• Khoisan languagesRelated: It offers evidence for family relationships beyond shared features such as clicks.

• Laryngeal theoryNarrower topic: It provides the method for inferring lost Proto-Indo-European consonants from daughter-language evidence.

• Linguistic paleontologyRelated: It identifies inherited vocabulary that can support cultural and environmental inferences.

• Proto-Bantu languageNarrower topic: Regular sound correspondences among Bantu languages allow linguists to infer Proto-Bantu forms.

• Social anthropologyRelated: Comparison helps distinguish local arrangements from broader social patterns.