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- Language_family abstract "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' reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy. No actual biological relationship between speakers is implied by the metaphor.Estimates of the number of living languages vary from 5,000 to 8,000, depending on the precision of one's definition of "language", and in particular on how one classifies dialects. The 2013 edition of Ethnologue catalogs just over 7,000 living human languages. A "living language" is simply one that is used as the primary form of communication of a group of people. There are also many dead and extinct languages, as well as some that are still insufficiently studied to be classified, or even unknown outside their respective speech communities.Membership of languages in a language family is established by comparative linguistics. Sister languages are said to have a "genetic" or "genealogical" relationship. The latter is older, but has been revived in recent years to better distinguish the relationships between languages from the genetic relationships between people.The evidence of linguistic relationship is found in observable shared characteristics that are not attributed to contact or borrowing. Genealogically related languages present shared retentions, that is, features of the proto-language (or reflexes of such features) that cannot be explained by chance or borrowing (convergence). Membership in a branch or group within a language family is established by shared innovations, that is, common features of those languages that are not found in the common ancestor of the entire family. For example, Germanic languages are "Germanic" in that they share vocabulary and grammatical features that are not believed to have been present in the Proto-Indo-European language. These features are believed to be innovations that took place in Proto-Germanic, a descendant of Proto-Indo-European that was the source of all Germanic languages.".
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- Language_family wikiPageExternalLink Appendix:Swadesh_lists.
- Language_family wikiPageExternalLink multitree.linguistlist.org.
- Language_family wikiPageExternalLink Papuan%20Pasts%20paper.pdf.
- Language_family wikiPageExternalLink web.asp.
- Language_family wikiPageExternalLink countries.htm.
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- Language_family wikiPageRevisionID "683646466".
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Andrew_Pawley.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Appendix_Probi.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Aquitanian_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Areal_feature.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Areal_feature_(linguistics).
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Armenian_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink August_Schleicher.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Baltic_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Basque_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Category:Historical_linguistics.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Category:Language_families.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Celtic_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Clade.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Classical_Latin.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Comparative_linguistics.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Comparative_method.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Comparative_method_(linguistics).
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Constructed_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Creole_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Danish_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Dialect_continuum.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Endangered_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Ethnologue.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Extinct_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Family_tree.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Faroese_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Genetic_(linguistics).
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Genetic_relationship_(linguistics).
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Germanic_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Global_language_system.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Historical_linguistics.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Horizontal_gene_transfer.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink ISO_639-5.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Indian_Subcontinent.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Indian_subcontinent.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Indo-European_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Indo-Iranian_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Italic_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Japonic_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Language.
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- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
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- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Loanword.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Macrofamily.
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- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Monophyly.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Mutual_intelligibility.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Norwegian_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Old_Norse.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Oscan_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Phylogenetic_tree.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Population_genetics.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Proto-Germanic.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Proto-Germanic_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Proto-Indo-European_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Proto-Romance.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Proto-language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Proto-language_(historical_linguistics).
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Romance_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Sign_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Sister_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Slavic_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Sprachbund.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Swedish_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Taxonomy_(biology).
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Taxonomy_(general).
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Tree_model.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Umbrian_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Unclassified_language.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink Vulgar_Latin.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink West_Germanic_languages.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLink File:Primary_Human_Language_Families_Map.png.
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLinkText "Language Family".
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLinkText "Language families".
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLinkText "Language family".
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLinkText "Language family#Structure of a family".
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLinkText "Linguistically".
- Language_family wikiPageWikiLinkText "branch".