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Meanings of families of languages in English
Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor.
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Examples for "language family"
Examples for "language family"
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That language was part of the Austronesian language family, or Malay-Polynesian, that included both Filipino and modern Chamorro languages, he said.
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The origin of all these languages is outside the continent, except for Arabic, the Afro-Asiatic language family, which is spoken by North African Arabic countries.
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But the language families closest to Austronesian are thought to be Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, and Miao-Yao.
4
In Chapter 15 I explained that most New Guinea languages , termed Papuan languages , are unrelated to any language families elsewhere in the world.
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The other three families have fragmented distributions, being spoken by "islands" of people surrounded by a "sea" of speakers of Chinese and other language families.
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Many of South Africa's linguistic groups share a common ancestry.
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Three major haplogroups, namely H, O and R, are shared across the four linguistic groups.
3
There are thousands of dialects in Africa -Chad alone has two hundred distinct linguistic groups.
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The genomic architecture of African populations is poorly understood and there is considerable variation between ethno- linguistic groups.
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Much of the early history of academic linguistics was spent reconstructing European "proto-languages", our best guesses at earlier forms of familiar linguistic groups.
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This was bigger than language groups, she said, bigger than families.
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Members of other language groups feel the same way.
3
Dagestan is home to more than 40 language groups.
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The songlines or tracks transcend the language groups.
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These bishops faced a problem in uniting two different language groups of Christians under a single authority.
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The Ahom language is the oldest member of the Tai branch of the Siamese-Chinese linguistic family of which we have any record.
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The Kra-Dai linguistic family includes Thai and Lao as well as a great number of languages spoken by ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia.
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On the Pacific side of the continent not one of the forty linguistic families made pottery.
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The Maya Linguistic Family.
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The writer of this review had confidently expected an authoritative large-scale map showing the distribution of linguistic families, dialects, and tribes.
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Researchers say the tribe is a subgroup of the Pano linguistic group.
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In fact, no relationship of the Maya linguistic group to any other has been discovered.
3
Many of South Africa's linguistic groups share a common ancestry.
4
Three major haplogroups, namely H, O and R, are shared across the four linguistic groups.
5
There are thousands of dialects in Africa -Chad alone has two hundred distinct linguistic groups.
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Give the main characteristics of the Italic family of languages.
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The Indo-European family of languages far surpasses the Semitic in variety, flexibility, beauty, and strength.
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Sanskrit, you know, is the eldest brother of all the family of languages to which our English belongs.
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In this way we may trace a whole family of languages, and with it a kinship of descent, from Hindustan to Ireland.
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But the language families closest to Austronesian are thought to be Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, and Miao-Yao.
2
In Chapter 15 I explained that most New Guinea languages , termed Papuan languages , are unrelated to any language families elsewhere in the world.
3
The other three families have fragmented distributions, being spoken by "islands" of people surrounded by a "sea" of speakers of Chinese and other language families.
4
From the initial indications of family-like relations up to the establishment of language families, the time span is greater than 15,000 years.
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On the Pacific side of the continent not one of the forty linguistic families made pottery.
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The writer of this review had confidently expected an authoritative large-scale map showing the distribution of linguistic families, dialects, and tribes.
3
Attention is frequently called to the large number of linguistic families in America, nearly 100 having been named, embracing over 1000 languages and dialects.
Usage of families of languages in English
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This identification changed when agriculture started and families of languages ascertained themselves.
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The speech of the Basques in the Pyrenees has nothing in common with the European families of languages.
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Nor are we at all certain of the relation, if any, in which the greater families of languages stand to each other.
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Whatever it was, it covered a wide area, larger than the area covered by many families of languages in India at the present day.
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The major families of languages are associated, as archaeological and linguistic data prove, with places where the new pragmatic context of agriculture was established.
Translations for families of languages
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