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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Language groups, taxonomy thereof #148953 10/15/2005 8:56 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui Waddya call groups of languages within families? I have been labouring under the (mis?)apprehension that "family" referred to big groups, like Indo-European. If that is so, what's the name for the groups within that family, such as Indic, Germanic, etc.? noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof #148954 10/15/2005 9:29 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA It has been forty years since I sat in a junior-level class in Linguistic Anthropology but I think the taxonomy we used, updated in terms of the example provided, worked like this: Kingdom: Human Language Phylum: Indo-European Family: Teutonic/Germanic Subfamily: English Language: American English Dialect: Southern Californian Subdialect: Valley Girl Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof #148955 10/15/2005 9:41 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui Thanks. The reason for my query was that "family" is often used where you have "kingdom". For example, here. This has ensured that my neuron is all in a tizz. noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof #148956 10/15/2005 9:57 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh I'd say: Indo-European family, Italic or Germanic sub-family, Romance group. That's about as fine-grained as it gets. Not as many languages as species. [Fixed typo.] Last edited by zmjezhd; 10/16/2005 12:22 AM. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof #148957 10/15/2005 10:41 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Only one neuron, Max? It must be too busy to be tizzy. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof #148958 10/15/2005 11:01 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Hey, that's an interesting chart Max. Thanks for the link. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof #148959 10/15/2005 11:36 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Quote: ... here ... I love that chart. Looks like some Babylonian solar disk. But then I've seen Romance divided into, e.g., Ibero-Romance, Gallo-Romance, etc. Last edited by Faldage; 10/15/2005 11:38 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,310 Members9,209 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery 9,209 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 11 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,158 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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