a family of languages
81family — noun (plural families) 1》 [treated as sing. or plural] a group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit. ↘a group of people related by blood or marriage. ↘the children of a person or couple. 2》 all the… …
82family-tree theory — /fam euh lee tree , fam lee /, Historical Ling. a theory that describes language change in terms of genetically related languages developing in successive splits from a common parent language, such as Indo European, as depicted by a family tree… …
83family tree — /fæmli ˈtri/ (say famlee tree) noun a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of the members of a family, as of people, animals, languages, etc …
84Papuan languages — Group of about 750 languages spoken by indigenous peoples of New Guinea and parts of some neighbouring islands, including Alor, Bougainville, Halmahera, New Britain, New Ireland, and Timor. Spoken by perhaps five million people, Papuan languages… …
85Language family — See also: List of language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto language of that family. The term family comes from the tree model of language origination in… …
86Trans-New Guinea languages — Infobox Language family name = Trans–New Guinea region = New Guinea, Nusa Tenggara, Maluku Islands family = hypothetical language family of Papuan languages. familycolor = Papuan child1 = Angan Awin Pa Binanderean Bosavi child2 = Central and… …
87Austronesian languages — formerly Malayo Polynesian languages Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, the central and southern Pacific island groups (except most of New Guinea; see Papuan… …
88Tibeto-Burman languages — Introduction language group within the Sino Tibetan family (Sino Tibetan languages). At the end of the 20th century, Tibeto Burman languages were spoken by approximately 57 million people; countries that had more than 1 million Tibeto… …
89Oto-Manguean languages — Oto Manguean Geographic distribution: Currently Mexico; previously Mesoamerica and Central America Linguistic classification: Not positively related to any other language families. Subdivisions: Oto Pamean Chinantecan Tl …
90Dravidian languages — For other uses, see Dravidian (disambiguation). Dravidian Geographic distribution: South Asia Linguistic classification: Dravidian Proto language: Proto Dravidian Subdivisions: Northern Cen …
