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   What is a language family?

   • Language families are Thought to have a shared, but fairly distant, origin in a language subfamily, the commonality is more definite. Subfamilies are divided into language groups, which consist of sets of individual languages. Figure 8-2 shows the distribution of 20 major language families.

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   What is the difference between language classification and language family classification?

   • Language classification uses terms that are also employed in biology, and for the same reasons: some languages are related and some are not. Language families are Thought to have a shared, but fairly distant, origin in a language subfamily, the commonality is more definite.

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   How many subfamilies are there in the Indo-European language family?

   • Subfamilies are divided into language groups, which consist of sets of individual languages. Figure 8-2 shows the distribution of 20 major language families. On this map, only the Indo-European language family is broken down into subfamilies (greater detail is shown in Figure 8-3).

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   Which language family is most familiar with?

   • The language family I have probably brought up the most, and the one you're probably most familiar with, is the Indo-European language family. This map shows you where modern English is, and I'm just highlighting Spanish right here, but you get the point. This is pretty much most of the Indo-European languages, at least the major players.

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   Language families are Thought to have a shared, but fairly distant, origin in a language subfamily, the commonality is more definite. Subfamilies are divided into language groups, which consist of sets of individual languages. Figure 8-2 shows the distribution of 20 major language families.

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   Apr 5, 2024 · 1. : a category in biological classification ranking below a family and above a genus. 2. : a subgroup of languages within a language family. Examples of subfamily in a Sentence.

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   Nov 21, 2023 · A language family is a group of languages that all descended from a common ancestor. These languages change gradually over time and usually become mutually unintelligible....

   • What are examples of language groups?

     The Indo-European language family is the most widespread language family on Earth. It includes the English and Spanish languages, as well as Hindi,...
   • How many world language families are there?

     Scholars believe that there are about 147 language families in the world. However, they can not agree on the exact number.

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   Mar 17, 2024 · Even still, it is most probably the case that it took about 2000 years of migration to get to these major language families within Indo-European. We have Indian or Indic, Armenian, Iranian or Vedic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Albanian, Celtic, Hellenic, and Italic. Those are the main language families within Indo-European.

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   noun. biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a family. any analogous subdivision, as of a family of languages. subfamily. / sŭb ′ făm′ə-lē / A subdivision of a family of organisms, containing one or more genera.

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   Nov 17, 2022 · 💡. A language family is a group of several languages that evolve from the same mother language—the mother language is known as the proto-language. Interestingly, not all languages belong to a family. Some languages have been recognized as stand-alone, unable to fit into the collective language families.

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   Apr 19, 2024 · Celtic. Subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. At one time, during the Hellenistic period, Celtic speech extended all the way from Britain and the Iberian Peninsula in the west across Europe to Asia Minor in the east. Dravidian. Family of about 23 languages that appears to be unrelated to any other known language family.