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

      

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

  

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Faith
The assumptions may not be correct
It is time consuming
Historians may omit some vital information
Different languages have similar words with different meanings.
Borrowings of words from other other languages has corrupted the parent language hence inaccurate information
Faimus answered the question on June 10, 2018 at 16:33


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