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language_family

language family

English

Noun

language family ‎(plural language families)

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

Translations

set of languages

Arabic:
Armenian: լեզվաընտանիք (hy) ‎(lezvaəntanikʿ)
Burmese:
Chinese:
Mandarin: 語系 (zh), 语系 (zh) ‎(yǔxì), 語族 (zh), 语族 (zh) ‎(yǔzú)
Dutch: taalfamilie (nl) c
Esperanto: lingva familio
Estonian: keelkond
Finnish: kielikunta (fi)
French: famille de langues f
Georgian:
German: Sprachfamilie (de) f
Greek: γλωσσική οικογένεια f ‎(glossikí oikogéneia)
Hebrew:
Hindi: भाषा-परिवार m ‎(bhāṣā-parivār)
Hungarian: nyelvcsalád (hu)
Inuktitut: ᐃᓚᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᑎᒌᑦ (Ilaqatigiit uqausiqatigiit)
Japanese: 語族 (ja) ‎(ごぞく, gozoku)

Kazakh: тіл ұясы ‎(til uyası)
Khmer: អំបូរភាសា ‎(ɑmboo pʰiesaa)
Korean: 어족 (ko) ‎(eo-jok) (語族 (ko))
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: zimanmalbat f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: språkfamilie (no) m

Nynorsk: språkfamilie m
Polish: rodzina językowa f
Portuguese: família linguística f
Romanian: familie lingvistică f, familie de limbi f
Russian: языкова́я семья́ f ‎(jazykovája semʹjá)
Spanish: familia lingüística f
Thai: ตระกูลของภาษา ‎(dtràgoon kŏng paasăa)
Tibetan:
Turkish: dil ailesi (tr)
Vietnamese: ngữ hệ, hệ ngôn ngữ