'' / Historical Linguistics'' is an annual

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Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e. ...

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

. It is the second oldest linguistics journal still in publication. The current

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are Martin Kümmel (University of Jena), Olav Hackstein, and Sabine Ziegler. The journal is published by

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History

The journal was originally established by

Adalbert Kuhn Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (19 November 1812 – 5 May 1881) was a German philologist and folklorist. Kuhn was born in Königsberg in Brandenburg's Neumark region. From 1841, he was connected with the Köllnisches Gymnasium at Berlin, of wh ...

in 1852, and consequently known colloquially as (, 'Kuhn's Journal'). Its official name was () from 1852 to 1874. For most of this period, it ran in parallel to its sister publication ('Articles for Comparative Linguistics Research on the Aryan, Celtic, and Slavic Languages', known colloquially at ), which existed from 1858 to 1876.R.D. Fulk,
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
', Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 3 (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2018), , , p. 338. In 1877, the publications merged with each other and with ('Articles for the Science of Indo-European Languages', known colloquially as , 1877–1906) as ('Magazine for Comparative Linguistics Research on the Indo-European Languages'). This title persisted until 1967. From 1968 to 1987, the journal was called ('Journal of Comparative Linguistics'). It obtained its present title in 1988.

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