Social:Language classification
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In linguistics, language classification is the grouping of related languages into the same category. There are two main kinds of language classification: genealogical and typological classification.[1]
Genealogical (or genetic) classification
Languages are grouped by diachronic relatedness into language families.[2] In other words, languages are grouped based on how they were developed and evolved throughout history, with languages which descended from a common ancestor being grouped into the same language family.
Typological classification
Languages are grouped by their structural and functional features.
See also
- Genetic relationship
- List of language families
References
- ↑ "Linguistics - Language classification" (in en). https://www.britannica.com/science/linguistics/Language-classification. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ↑ "Language Typology: Analytic versus Synthetic Languages". http://www.ello.uos.de/field.php/Morphology/AnalyticVersusSynthetic. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
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