# lexicostatistics

> approach to comparative linguistics that involves quantitative comparison of lexical cognates; related to the comparative method but does not reconstruct a proto-language

**Wikidata**: [Q284290](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284290)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicostatistics)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/lexicostatistics


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. BabelNet