Historical Linguistics

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Historical Linguistics (also called Diachronic Linguistics) is a field of Linguistics that concerns the study of language change. It sounds similar to History of Linguistics and therefore, the two areas are sometimes wrongly conflated. In fact, they are different subjects.

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