Social Sciences and History / Unit 11 SSH 1022 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Language Families and Branches
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The idea
Languages are classified by family, such as Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan or Niger-Congo, descending from one ancestral language; by branch, such as Germanic, Slavic or Romance; and by subgroup, English within Germanic, Spanish within Romance. A proto-language is the family's ancestor.
In practice
The most widespread: Chinese, Spanish, English, in the anchor's list.
Where people slip
This chapter's printed outcomes repeat chapter seven's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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