This group collects the Linguistics subcategory's members whose defining work concerns historical and comparative linguistics: how languages change over time and how related languages descend from a common ancestor, from the founders of comparative philology to modern historical linguists reconstructing proto-languages. It is kept apart from Sociolinguistics, whose members study how language varies across present-day social groups rather than how it changes across historical time.
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Modern historical linguistics dates to the late 18th century, having originally grown out of the earlier discipline of philology.
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