+**Comparative linguistics** studies the relationships between languages by comparing their features across time. Through this method, linguists identify [language families](/wiki/language_family) and trace their shared [historical linguistics](/wiki/historical_linguistics) back to common ancestors.
+## See also
+- [Etymology](/wiki/etymology)
+- [Proto-Language](/wiki/proto-language)
+- [Sound Change](/wiki/sound_change)
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