"language branch" meaning in All languages combined

See language branch on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: language branches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (set of languages): 語族 /语族 (yǔzú) (Chinese Mandarin), Sprachzweig [masculine] (German)

Inflected forms

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          "kind": "other",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǔzú",
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          "word": "語族 /语族"
        },
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          "lang": "German",
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        }
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        "linguistics",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǔzú",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "語族 /语族"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "set of languages",
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      ],
      "word": "Sprachzweig"
    }
  ],
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