Language
- Comparative case, a grammatical case used in the Mari language
- Comparative Critical Studies, a literary journal
- Comparative linguistics, a method used in the study of languages
- Comparative literature, a method used in the study of literature
- Comparative method, a technique used in the study of languages
- Quantitative comparative linguistics, a computational technique used in the study of languages
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