language family

group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor
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language family

Summary

language family is a languoid class[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of languoid_class entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,880 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • language family's instance of is recorded as languoid class[3].
  • language family's subclass of is recorded as languoid[4].
  • language family's subclass of is recorded as language group[5].
  • language family's part of is recorded as genetic classification[6].
  • language family's part of is recorded as macrofamily[7].
  • language family's Commons category is recorded as Languages by family[8].
  • language family's has part is recorded as language subfamily[9].
  • language family's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04mcx[10].
  • language family's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Language families[11].
  • language family's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300411982[12].
  • language family's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1282916[13].
  • language family's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • language family's described by source is recorded as Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[15].
  • language family's topic has template is recorded as Template:Language families[16].
  • language family's different from is recorded as sprachbund[17].
  • language family's properties for this type is recorded as P1468[18].
  • language family's properties for this type is recorded as P1798[19].
  • language family's properties for this type is recorded as P1394[20].
  • language family's properties for this type is recorded as P646[21].
  • language family's YSO ID is recorded as 19079[22].
  • language family's has list is recorded as list of language families[23].
  • language family's studied by is recorded as linguistics[24].
  • language family's studied by is recorded as sociolinguistics[25].
  • language family's exact match is recorded as https://ontology.londisizwe.org/mola#LanguageFamily[26].
  • language family's Quora topic ID is recorded as Language-Families[27].

Why It Matters

language family ranks in the top 4% of languoid_class entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,880 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_language-family_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{language family}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/language-family}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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