language family

language family读音音标

英 [ˈlæŋɡwidʒ ˈfæmili]

美 [ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ ˈfæməli]

language family意思解释

释义

语系；

英英释义

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.

双语例句

The English language is not allied to the Chinese.英语与汉语不属于同一语系。English is a branch of the Germanic family of language.英语是日尔曼语系的一个分支。