language family subgroup

A language family subgroup is a set of closely related languages within a larger language family that share a more recent common ancestor and distinctive linguistic features.

Aliases (16)

• language subgroup ×30
• language family branch ×9
• proposed language subgroup ×8
• Oceanic language subgroup ×6
• Oceanic languages subgroup ×2
• Dravidian languages subgroup ×1
• Dravidian subgroup ×1
• Italic languages subgroup ×1
• Micronesian languages subgroup ×1
• Semitic language subgroup ×1
• Uralic languages subgroup ×1
• branch of Niger-Congo languages ×1
• hypothetical language family branch ×1
• subfamily of languages ×1
• subgroup of Dravidian languages ×1
• subgroup of Polynesian languages ×1

Instances (71)

• Oregon Penutian languages ("proposed language subgroup")
• Goidelic
• Latino-Faliscan languages
• Southern Numic ("language subgroup")
• North Germanic languages
• Balto-Slavic languages
• Nguni languages
• Celebic languages ("language subgroup")
• Remote Oceanic languages ("language subgroup")
• St George linkage subgroup ("proposed language subgroup")
• Greater North Borneo languages ("proposed language subgroup")
• Greater Central Philippine languages ("language subgroup")
• Malayo-Polynesian languages ("language family branch")
• Tongan language group ("subgroup of Polynesian languages")
• Southern Bantoid ("language subgroup")
• Central Pacific languages ("language subgroup")
• Southern Luzon languages ("language subgroup")
• Northwest Semitic ("Semitic language subgroup")
• Batanic languages ("language subgroup")
• Northwest Solomonic languages ("language subgroup")
• Chuukic–Pohnpeic languages ("language subgroup")
• Meso-Melanesian languages ("language subgroup")
• Central Malayo-Polynesian languages ("proposed language subgroup")
• Ellicean languages ("language subgroup")
• Marquesic languages ("language subgroup")
• South Sulawesi languages ("language subgroup")
• Kwa languages ("branch of Niger-Congo languages")
• New Caledonian–Loyalty languages ("language subgroup")
• Malayic languages ("language subgroup")
• Southern Philippine languages subgroup ("language subgroup")
• Celebic–South Halmahera languages ("proposed language subgroup")
• Southeast Solomonic languages ("Oceanic language subgroup")
• Western Oceanic languages ("language subgroup")
• Central–Eastern Oceanic languages ("language subgroup")
• Muna–Buton languages ("language subgroup")
• Bima–Sumba languages ("language subgroup")
• South-Central Dravidian ("language family branch")
• Flores–Lembata languages ("language subgroup")
• Ugric languages ("Uralic languages subgroup")
• Bisayan languages subgroup ("language subgroup")
• Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup ("language subgroup")
• Barito languages subgroup ("language subgroup")
• Samoic–Outlier languages subgroup ("language subgroup")
• South Banda languages subgroup ("language subgroup")
• Southern Dravidian ("subgroup of Dravidian languages")
• Mon-Khmer ("language family branch")
• Sabellic languages ("Italic languages subgroup")
• Eastern Iranian languages ("language subgroup")
• Southern Nilotic languages ("language family branch")
• Atlantic–Congo languages ("language family branch")
• California Hokan ("proposed language subgroup")
• Finno-Ugric languages ("language family branch")
• Taracahitic ("proposed language subgroup")
• Corachol ("subfamily of languages")
• Northern Uto-Aztecan ("language family branch")
• Chadic languages ("language family branch")
• Southern Uto-Aztecan ("language family branch")
• Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages ("language subgroup")
• Eastern Romance ("language subgroup")
• North Dravidian languages ("Dravidian languages subgroup")
• Micronesian languages ("Oceanic language subgroup")
• California Penutian languages ("proposed language subgroup")