What is linguistic genealogy? How can one establish such a genealogy?

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Stephen Politzer-Ahles Popular answer

Here are some links that may be useful:

http://people.uleth.ca/~frantz/linggen.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_typology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_linguistics

Stephen Politzer-Ahles

Rakesh Maurya

Dear David, a few more articles related to your theme. Hope it helps. Thanks!

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