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parent languages

parent languages is the plural of parent language.

Meaning of parent language

Noun

parent language (plural parent languages)

  1. A language from which a later language is derived.
    • Old English is the parent language of English and Scots.

Questions about parent languages

What is parent languages the plural of?
Parent languages is the plural of parent language.

Words near parent languages in the dictionary

  1. parent compound
  2. parent compounds
  3. parent drug
  4. parent drugs
  5. parent language
  6. parent languages
  7. parent nuclide
  8. parent nuclides
  9. parent pointer tree
  10. parent trigger
  11. parent triggers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parent languages (page history and authors); parent language (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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