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  factualité
  factuel
  facultatif
  facultativité
  faible1
  faible2
  faire référence (à)
  faisceau
  fait manifeste
  fait social
  falsifiabilité
  falsification
  familier
  famille
  fausset

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language family

[Subentry of family, language1]

Fr    famille de langues

Synonym(s): family of languages

Related term(s): affinity, ancestor language, branch2, cognate language, daughter language, parent language, phylum, proto-language, related language, similarity2, sister language, subgroup2, typology

Domain: Historical Linguistics

Source(s): Collinge 1990: 906f.; Comrie 1981: 10; Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 10 (family); ELL: 636; Francis 1983: 48; Hartmann & Stork 1972: 83 (= linguistic group); Hock 1986: 567; Lehmann 1992: 7, 120; Lyons 1971: 21; Matthews 1997: 126 (family), 199; Nash 1968: 120

English word list

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  language2
  language3
  language4
  language behavior
  language change
  language disorder
  language engineering
  language game1
  language game2
  language learning techniques
  language processing
  language shift
  language state
  language system
  language type

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