VOlUME 05 ISSUE 10 OCTOBER 2022
Mohammed Khalid Mahmood
Department of Health & Biomedical Sciences, Aix-Marseille University, France
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i10-18Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
Some languages come from historical common ancestors and they share similarity on the basis phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Some words resemble each other between remote and even unrelated languages. Apart from historical borrowing, this is mainly due to common ancestor language. Degree of lexical similarity is one of the methods to measure word and cognate resemblance between languages. For this purpose, some lists have been proposed by professionals that contain words with the slightest possibility of borrowing from another language and the highest durability throughout time. The word for ‘tooth’ is present in all these lists. This shows the stability of this word and accounts for its similitude among world languages.
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