language family subgroup
C4276
concept
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.
All labels observed (30)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| language subgroup | 273 |
| language family branch | 47 |
| proposed language subgroup | 21 |
| language family subgroup canonical | 19 |
| Oceanic languages subgroup | 11 |
| Oceanic language subgroup | 10 |
| subgroup of languages | 10 |
| linguistic subgroup | 8 |
| branch of Niger-Congo languages | 3 |
| Atlantic languages subgroup | 2 |
| Dravidian languages subgroup | 2 |
| Gur languages subgroup | 2 |
| Sami language subgroup | 2 |
| subfamily of languages | 2 |
| Aru languages subgroup | 1 |
| Dravidian subgroup | 1 |
| Italic language subgroup | 1 |
| Italic languages subgroup | 1 |
| Micronesian languages subgroup | 1 |
| Romance language subgroup | 1 |
| Semitic language subgroup | 1 |
| Uralic languages subgroup | 1 |
| hypothetical language family branch | 1 |
| indigenous language family subgroup | 1 |
| language subbranch | 1 |
| subgroup of Dravidian languages | 1 |
| subgroup of Polynesian languages | 1 |
| subgroup of Romance languages | 1 |
| subgroup of Sami languages | 1 |
| subgroup of language family | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: language family subgroup
Generated description
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.
Instances (406)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Southern Philippine languages subgroup | language subgroup |
| Senegambian languages | language family branch |
| Celebic–South Halmahera languages | proposed language subgroup |
| Southeast Solomonic languages | Oceanic language subgroup |
| Western Oceanic languages | language subgroup |
| Luba languages | — |
| Central Tano | language subgroup |
| Central–Eastern Oceanic languages | language subgroup |
| Western Malayo-Polynesian languages | language subgroup |
|
Core Altaic (Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic)
surface form:
Core Altaic
|
proposed language subgroup |
| Muna–Buton languages | language subgroup |
| Southern Indo-Aryan languages | language subgroup |
| Western Numic | language subgroup |
| Sena–Nyanja languages | language subgroup |
| Central Numic | language subgroup |
| Lao–Phuthai languages | language subgroup |
| Lechitic languages | language subgroup |
| Bima–Sumba languages | language subgroup |
| Tepiman | subgroup of languages |
| South-Central Dravidian | language family branch |
| Flores–Lembata languages | language subgroup |
| Ugric languages | Uralic languages subgroup |
| Western Hindi | language subgroup |
| Nupoid languages | language subgroup |
| Nupoid | language subgroup |
| Core Yuman | language subgroup |
| Bisayan languages subgroup | language subgroup |
| Sama–Bajaw languages subgroup | language subgroup |
| Barito languages subgroup | language subgroup |
| Central Philippine | language subgroup |
| Havasupai–Walapai–Yavapai | language subgroup |
| Samoic–Outlier languages subgroup | language subgroup |
| Lolo-Burmese | subgroup of languages |
| Western Sami languages | Sami language subgroup |
| Central Sami languages | Sami language subgroup |
| South Banda languages subgroup | language subgroup |
| Igboid | language subgroup |
| Southwestern branch of Yuman languages | language family branch |
| Takic | language subgroup |
| North Omotic | subgroup of languages |
| Western Gurage | language subgroup |
| Southern Dravidian | subgroup of Dravidian languages |
| Northern Gurage | language subgroup |
| Eastern Sami | subgroup of Sami languages |
| Eastern Gurage | language subgroup |
| Central Algonquian | language subgroup |
| Javanic languages | language subgroup |
| Sabellic | Italic language subgroup |
| Cupan | language subgroup |
| Corachol language | language subgroup |