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Language family and Origin of language

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Language family and Origin of language

Language family vs. Origin of language

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. The evolutionary emergence of language in the human species has been a subject of speculation for several centuries.

Similarities between Language family and Origin of language

Language family and Origin of language have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Creole language, Historical linguistics, Language, Proto-language, Sign language.

Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.

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Historical linguistics

Historical linguistics, also called diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Proto-language

A proto-language, in the tree model of historical linguistics, is a language, usually hypothetical or reconstructed, and usually unattested, from which a number of attested known languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Language family and Origin of language Comparison

Language family has 83 relations, while Origin of language has 205. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.74% = 5 / (83 + 205).

References

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