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Cultural history

language families

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Historical linguistics
Linguistics
Cultural history
Language family
Indo-European languages
Proto-Germanic language
Tree model
Germanic languages
Proto-language
Genetic relationship
Proto-Indo-European language
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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?historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological?family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a?phylogenetic tree?of evolutionary?taxonomy. No actual biological relationship between speakers is implied by the metaphor.

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