sister languages
Related language family
Sister languages are languages that share a common ancestor, descending from the same parent language.
Spanish and Portuguese are sister languages, both having evolved from Latin.
English and German are sisters within the Germanic family.
The term emphasizes parallel descent rather than one language spawning another.
- comparativeInvolving measured contrast
- reconstructionsActs of rebuilding something
- cognatesWords from common origin
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- etymologiesWord origin studies
common ancestor · Proto-Germanic · Sino-Tibetan · Grimm's Law · historical · creolization · pidginization · Afro-Asiatic · shared vocabulary · word roots · Dravidian · loanwords · communication · Niger-Congo · divergence · Indo-European · Turkic · bilingualism
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