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| | Historical linguistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The focus was on the well-known Indo-European languages, many of which had long written histories. |
 | | But since then, significant comparative linguistic work has been done on the Uralic languages, Austronesian languages and various families of Native American languages, among many others. |
 | | Comparative linguistics is now, however, only a part of a more broadly conceived discipline of historical linguistics. |
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