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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Attention is frequently called to the large number of linguistic families in America, nearly 100 having been named, embracing over 1000 languages and dialects.
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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.
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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.
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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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