"The only way to establish absolute linguistic chronologies is to correlate linguistic facts with dates fixed by other means."
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Pereltsvaig, Asya and Lewis, Martin W. (2015). The Indo-European Controversy Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press ” (Pereltsvaig and Lewis 2015:164))
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