language family

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Noun

language family (plural language families)

1. (linguistics) A set of languages which have evolved from a common ancestor.

Translations

set of languages

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語系 (cmn), 语系 (cmn) (yǔxì), 語族 (cmn), 语族 (cmn) (yǔzú)

• Dutch: taalfamilie (nl) c
• Finnish: kielikunta (fi)
• French: famille de langues (fr) f
• German: Sprachfamilie (de) f
• Hindi: भाषा-परिवार (hi) (bhāṣā-parivār) m
• Inuktitut: ᐃᓚᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᑎᒌᑦ (Ilaqatigiit uqausiqatigiit)
• Japanese: 語族 (ja) (ごぞく, gozoku)

• Khmer: អំបូរភាសា (km) (ɑmboo pʰiesaa)
• Korean: 어족 (ko) (eo-jok) (語族 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: zimanmalbat (kmr) f

• Norwegian: språkfamilie (no) m
• Polish: rodzina językowa f
• Russian: языковая семья (ru) (jazykovája semʹjá) f
• Vietnamese: ngữ hệ (vi), hệ ngôn ngữ (vi)