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language families

language families is the plural of language family.

Meaning of language family

Noun

language family (plural language families)

  1. A set of languages which have evolved from a common ancestor.

Questions about language families

What is language families the plural of?
Language families is the plural of language family.

Words near language families in the dictionary

  1. language education
  2. language exchange
  3. language exchanges
  4. language extinction
  5. language extinctions
  6. language families
  7. language family
  8. language game
  9. language games
  10. language island
  11. language islands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: language families (page history and authors); language family (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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