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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.?
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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
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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.
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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.]
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Only one neuron, Max? It must be too busy to be tizzy.
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Hey, that's an interesting chart Max. Thanks for the link.
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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.
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