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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread 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 Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Language groups, taxonomy thereof sjmaxq 10/15/2005 8:56 PM Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof Father Steve 10/15/2005 9:29 PM Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof sjmaxq 10/15/2005 9:41 PM Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof zmjezhd 10/15/2005 9:57 PM Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof Father Steve 10/15/2005 10:41 PM Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof belMarduk 10/15/2005 11:01 PM Re: Language groups, taxonomy thereof Faldage 10/15/2005 11:36 PM 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 Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,389 Members9,211 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 33 A C Bowden 16 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,213 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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