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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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Groups of languages that have similar roots are known as
A
language families.
B
language clusters.
C
language groups.
D
language types.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A language family is a group of different languages that all descend from a particular common language. The one language that generated those other languages in its family is known as a protolanguage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Afrikaans, Dutch, German, English, and French These five European languages not only sound very similar to each other, but some words in them come from a common source. It’s called Romance Germanic people and includes many French, Spanish and Italian words.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indo-European (583 languages) Sino-Tibetan (501 languages) Afro-Asiatic (379 languages)

Detailed explanation-4: -Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.

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