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 |
|---|---|
| Cupan languages | language subgroup |
| Crow–Hidatsa branch | language subgroup |
| Dinkaic languages | language subgroup |
| Karto-Zan branch | language subgroup |
| Micronesian languages | Oceanic language subgroup |
| California Penutian languages | proposed language subgroup |