LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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A collection of languages through a common ancestor who have limited differences are referred to as a ____
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Language Family
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Language Branch
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Dialect
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Super Family
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
Detailed explanation-2: -Proto-Words. Proto-words are hypotheses as to the form of the word used by the common ancestor or proto-language of a given language family to denote a given meaning.
Detailed explanation-3: -Language Branch. Definition: A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family.
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