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Removal of a newly added section.

@Clickbait67, just added a new section Dead Languages. Is this new section even appropriate. If so, considering the focus of the newly added section deals with the information on the change of linguistics over time, might it be more fitting to rename it Historical linguistics, with the link to the main article. Since Historical linguistics focuses on the study of language change over time, including the reconstruction of ancient languages and their features. Pinging @Remsense, @Benlittlewiki for what they think. StarkReport (talk) 17:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aye, we have a historical linguistics section (it's the first one, just about!) Remsense诉 17:37, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes, I can't believe it completely slipped my memory. StarkReport (talk) 17:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Historical linguistics

The statement that historical linguistics is either done diachronically or synchronically, which has been flagged as missing a citation, is actually incorrect. Language change can be studied either way. Historical linguistics is, by definition, done diachronically. MinTrouble (talk) 19:25, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another undocumented paragraph

This paragraph here, also not sourced, leaves me, historical linguist, left wondering. I'd delete it: "The above approach of comparativism in linguistics is now, however, only a small part of the much broader discipline called historical linguistics. The comparative study of specific Indo-European languages is considered a highly specialized field today, while comparative research is carried out over the subsequent internal developments in a language: in particular, over the development of modern standard varieties of languages, and over the development of a language from its standardized form to its varieties." MinTrouble (talk) 19:32, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]