daughter language

English

Etymology

Probably a calque of German Tochtersprache.

Noun

daughter language (plural daughter languages)

1. (linguistics) A language which genetically descends from an earlier parent language.

   Synonym: daughter

   Coordinate terms: parent language, sister language

   English is a daughter language of Old English.

   French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are daughter languages of Latin.

Translations

language which genetically descends from earlier, parent language

• Armenian: դուստր լեզու (dustr lezu)
• Bulgarian: дъщерен език m (dǎšteren ezik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 派生語言／派生语言

• Dutch: dochtertaal (nl) f
• Finnish: tytärkieli
• French: langue fille (fr) f
• German: Tochtersprache (de) f
• Hungarian: utódnyelv, leánynyelv (hu)
• Limburgish: dochtertaol
• Persian: زبان دختر
• Polish: język wywodzący się z innego m
• Russian: дочерний язык m (dočernij jazyk)
• Swedish: dotterspråk (sv) n
• Turkish: yavru dil

Further reading

• daughter language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia