Meanings of families of languages in English

This identification changed when agriculture started and families of languages ascertained themselves.

The speech of the Basques in the Pyrenees has nothing in common with the European families of languages.

Nor are we at all certain of the relation, if any, in which the greater families of languages stand to each other.

Whatever it was, it covered a wide area, larger than the area covered by many families of languages in India at the present day.

The major families of languages are associated, as archaeological and linguistic data prove, with places where the new pragmatic context of agriculture was established.