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Noun [English]

Forms: language families [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} language family (plural language families)
  1. (linguistics) A set of languages which have evolved from a common ancestor. Wikipedia link: language family Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (set of languages): عائلة اللغات (Arabic), լեզվաընտանիք (lezvaəntanikʻ) (Armenian), hizkuntza familia (Basque), ဘာသာစကားမိသားစု (bhasaca.ka:mi.sa:cu.) (Burmese), família lingüística [feminine] (Catalan), 語系 (Chinese Mandarin), 语系 (yǔxì) (Chinese Mandarin), jazyková rodina [feminine] (Czech), sprogfamilie [common-gender] (Danish), taalfamilie [common-gender] (Dutch), lingvaro (Esperanto), lingva familio (Esperanto), keelkond (Estonian), málætt [feminine] (Faroese), kielikunta (Finnish), famille de langues [feminine] (French), familia lingüística [feminine] (Galician), ენათა ოჯახი (enata oǯaxi) (Georgian), Sprachfamilie [feminine] (German), γλωσσική οικογένεια (glossikí oikogéneia) [feminine] (Greek), השפה המשפחה (Hebrew), भाषा-परिवार (bhāṣā-parivār) [masculine] (Hindi), nyelvcsalád (Hungarian), ᐃᓚᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᑎᒌᑦ (ilaqaticiit oqaosiqaticiit) (Inuktitut), fine teangacha [feminine] (Irish), famiglia linguistica [feminine] (Italian), 語族 (gozoku) (alt: ごぞく) (Japanese), тіл ұясы (tıl ūäsy) (Kazakh), អំបូរភាសា (ɑmboo pʰiesaa) (Khmer), 어족 (eojok) (alt: 語族) (Korean), भाषाकुळ (bhāṣākuḷ) [neuter] (Marathi), zimanmalbat [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), språkfamilie [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), språkfamilie [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), rodzina językowa [feminine] (Polish), família linguística [feminine] (Portuguese), familie lingvistică [feminine] (Romanian), familie de limbi [feminine] (Romanian), языкова́я семья́ (jazykovája semʹjá) [feminine] (Russian), familia lingüística [feminine] (Spanish), ตระกูลของภาษา (dtrà-guun kɔ̌ɔng paa-sǎa) (Thai), ตระกูลภาษา (dtrà-guun-paa-sǎa) (Thai), སྐད་རིགས་ཁྱིམ་ཚང (skad rigs khyim tshang) (Tibetan), dil ailesi (Turkish), ngữ hệ (Vietnamese), hệ ngôn ngữ (Vietnamese), teulu ieithyddol [masculine] (Welsh)

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          "lang": "Thai",
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          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "skad rigs khyim tshang",
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          "word": "སྐད་རིགས་ཁྱིམ་ཚང"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
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          "sense": "set of languages",
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      "sense": "set of languages",
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      "lang": "Inuktitut",
      "roman": "ilaqaticiit oqaosiqaticiit",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "ᐃᓚᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᑎᒌᑦ"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "fine teangacha"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "set of languages",
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gozoku",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "語族"
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tıl ūäsy",
      "sense": "set of languages",
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      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "ɑmboo pʰiesaa",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "អំបូរភាសា"
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      "alt": "語族",
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "eojok",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "어족"
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      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "zimanmalbat"
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      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "bhāṣākuḷ",
      "sense": "set of languages",
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      "word": "भाषाकुळ"
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      "sense": "set of languages",
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    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "språkfamilie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rodzina językowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "família linguística"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "familie lingvistică"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "familie de limbi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jazykovája semʹjá",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "языкова́я семья́"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "familia lingüística"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "dtrà-guun kɔ̌ɔng paa-sǎa",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "ตระกูลของภาษา"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "dtrà-guun-paa-sǎa",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "ตระกูลภาษา"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "skad rigs khyim tshang",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "སྐད་རིགས་ཁྱིམ་ཚང"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "dil ailesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "ngữ hệ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "word": "hệ ngôn ngữ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "set of languages",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teulu ieithyddol"
    }
  ],
  "word": "language family"
}

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