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n. (language family English)
Usage examples of "language families".
New Guinea has by far the highest concentration of languages in the world: 1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas, and divided into dozens of language families and isolated languages as different from each other as English is from Chinese.
Linguists agree in grouping all but a few Eurasian languages into about a dozen language families, each consisting of up to several hundred related languages.
It just showed that this area was divorced from the region-and language families-across the mountains behind the company.
But as the centuries, the millennia, go by, our common language, Esperanto, will become dialects, then language families as unintelligible to one another as French and Albanian.
And this, of course, became the Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Celtic, and a dozen other language families which were not recorded or even heard of by civilized peoples.