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===Step 1, assemble potential cognate lists===
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This step involves making lists of words that are likely cognates among the languages being compared. If there is a regularly-recurring match between the phonetic structure of basic words with similar meanings, a genetic kinship can probably then be established.<ref name="ltwothree">{{harvnb|Lyovin|1997|pp=2–3}}.</ref> For example, linguists looking at the [[Polynesian languages|Polynesian family]] might come up with a list similar to the following (their actual list would be much longer):<ref>This table is modified from {{harvnb|Campbell|2004|pp=168–169}} and {{harvnb|Crowley|1992|pp=88–89}} using sources such as {{harvnb|Churchward|1959}} for Tongan, and {{harvnb|Pukui|1986}} for Hawaiian.</ref>
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