ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF LINGUISTICS AS A SOURCE OF HISTORICAL INFORMATION
ADVANTAGES OF LINGUISTICS
1. It helps to get information from various sources.
2. Enables to discover links between different people.
5. It helps to establish theories of origin, migration and settlement of various communities.
6. They compliment oral traditions and other sources of historical information.
7. Through Linguistics, historians discover previously unknown links between different people.
LIMITATIONS/DISADVANTAGES OF LINGUISTICS
2. Through translation, one can commit some important work.
3. The present language may be corrupted.
4. Delayed acquisition of information since it takes long to learn a particular language.
5. Some words could be omitted or distorted while translating the language.
6. Various languages may have similar words but with different meanings.
7. The borrowing of words might corrupt or interfere with the parent-language.
8. Some languages have become extinct
10. Inaccurate information can be passed on where wrong words are borrowed from other languages.
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