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What are the advantages of using linguistics as a source of information in history?

      

What are the advantages of using linguistics as a source of information in history?

  

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a) It gives information about people movement and their relationship
b) It helps us understand people better as people with a common language may have a common origin
c) It is useful in understanding the migration of people
d) It helps those using oral tradition to gather information from various sources
e) It enabled historical linguists to gather information from other sources which were previously unknown

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They show different ways of life of people in the past.

We know the variations between different communities and their cultural aspects.

Linguistics provides knowledge on the ancestral life of people.

Linguistics show the effects of cultural aspects on people.
Faimus answered the question on June 10, 2018 at 16:29


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