Linguistic measurements

From: Paul Alesu
Message: 23738
Date: 2003-06-23

Is there any kind of method to measure the differences between
languages?
Anything like "linguistic distance"?

Paul Alesu

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
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> I don't think the differences between Latin and, say, the various Celtic
> languages were as small as those between the modern Scandinavian languages.
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