language branch

English

Noun

language branch (plural language branches)

1. (linguistics) A subcategory within a language family, which groups together languages that share a common ancestor more recent than the proto-language of the language family.

Translations

set of languages

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語族／语族 (zh) (yǔzú)

• German: Sprachzweig (de) m