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

• Arabic: عائلة اللغات
• Armenian: լեզվաընտանիք (hy) (lezvaəntanikʻ)
• Basque: hizkuntza familia
• Burmese: ဘာသာစကားမိသားစု (bhasaca.ka:mi.sa:cu.)
• Catalan: família lingüística f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語系 / 语系 (zh) (yǔxì)

• Czech: jazyková rodina f
• Danish: sprogfamilie c
• Dutch: taalfamilie (nl) c
• Esperanto: lingvaro (eo), lingva familio
• Estonian: keelkond
• Faroese: málætt f
• Finnish: kielikunta (fi)
• French: famille de langues (fr) f
• Galician: familia lingüística f
• Georgian: ენათა ოჯახი (enata oǯaxi)
• German: Sprachfamilie (de) f
• Greek: γλωσσική οικογένεια f (glossikí oikogéneia)
• Hebrew: השפה המשפחה
• Hindi: भाषा-परिवार m (bhāṣā-parivār)
• Hungarian: nyelvcsalád (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᐃᓚᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᑎᒌᑦ (ilaqaticiit oqaosiqaticiit)
• Irish: fine teangacha f
• Italian: famiglia linguistica f
• Japanese: 語族 (ja) (ごぞく, gozoku)
• Kazakh: тіл ұясы (tıl ūäsy)
• Khmer: អំបូរភាសា (ɑmboo pʰiesaa)
• Korean: 어족(語族) (ko) (eojok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zimanmalbat f

• Marathi: भाषाकुळ n (bhāṣākuḷ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: språkfamilie (no) m

  Nynorsk: språkfamilie m

• Polish: rodzina językowa f
• Portuguese: família linguística (pt) f
• Romanian: familie lingvistică f, familie de limbi f
• Russian: языкова́я семья́ (ru) f (jazykovája semʹjá)
• Spanish: familia lingüística f
• Thai: ตระกูลของภาษา (dtrà-guun kɔ̌ɔng paa-sǎa), ตระกูลภาษา (th) (dtrà-guun-paa-sǎa)
• Tibetan: སྐད་རིགས་ཁྱིམ་ཚང (skad rigs khyim tshang)
• Turkish: dil ailesi (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngữ hệ (vi), hệ ngôn ngữ
• Welsh: teulu ieithyddol m