Language family
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language-family-179-8965071
title:
Language family
text:
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in evolutionary taxonomy. Linguists thus describe the daughter languages within a language family as being genetically related. The divergence of a proto-language into daughter languages typically o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family
date created:
2001-11-21T23:47:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T23:36:59Z
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13
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