The Journal of Language Relationship (abbreviated JLR; Russian: ÃÂþÿÃÂþÃÂàÃÂ÷ÃÂúþòþóþ ÃÂþôÃÂÃÂòð) is a quarterly academic journal published in Russia and the United States. It focuses on historical linguistics, with many articles relating to long-range comparative linguistics.
In 2008, founded the journal in Moscow. The journal is currently published by the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and by Gorgias Press in the United States. The journal is open access.
Editors (past and current) include Vladimir Dybo (editor-in-chief, 2009âÂÂ2023), George Starostin (editor-in-chief, 2024âÂÂpresent), Anna Dybo, Ilya Yakubovich, Kirill Babaev, and others. The advisory board includes (as of 2020) Heiner Eichner (chairman), William H. Baxter, Alexander Militarev, Valentin Vydrin, Václav Blaà ¾ek, Murray Gell-Mann, Larry Hyman, Frederik Kortlandt, and James P. Mallory.