title: Journal of Language Relationship
text: # Journal of Language Relationship
  
  The Journal of Language Relationship (abbreviated JLR; Russian: Вопросы языкового родства) is a quarterly academic journal published in both Russia and the United States. It focuses on historical linguistics, with many articles relating to long-range comparative linguistics.
  
  ## Overview
  
  In 1998, Kirill Babaev [ru] founded the journal in Moscow, Russia.
  
  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, Russia, and by Gorgias Press in the United States.
  
  The editorial board includes Heiner Eichner (chairman), William H. Baxter, Alexander Militarev, Valentin Vydrin, Václav Blažek, Murray Gell-Mann, Larry Hyman, Frederik Kortlandt, and James P. Mallory. Editors include Vladimir Dybo (editor-in-chief), George Starostin, Anna Dybo, and Ilya Yakubovich.
  
  