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Language Family Definition and Examples
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A language family is a set of languages deriving from a common ancestor or "parent." Subdivisions of a language family are called "branches." The largest African family, Niger-Congo, is estimated to consist of about 1,000 languages and several times as many dialects single-member language families a
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- A language family is a set of languages deriving from a common ancestor or "parent."
- Subdivisions of a language family are called "branches."
- The largest African family, Niger-Congo, is estimated to consist of about 1,000 languages and several times as many dialects
- single-member language families are referred to as language isolates
- hylum, i.e. a language group which is unrelated to any other group.
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