The dating of ancient languages by a technique called glottochronology is undergoing a revival, stimulated by the computational and statistical methods used to tease out evolutionary relationships in biology.
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Searls, D. Trees of life and of language. Nature 426, 391–392 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/426391a
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