language family

常见例句

Austronesian languages, by contrast, may have the simplest sounds of any language family.
与之形成对比的是南岛语族，它们可能是所有语系中发音最简单的。
These two genetic cousins of English, in the Indo-European language family, are child’s play compared with some.
这两门语言都属于印欧语系，是英语的近亲，和其他一些语言比起来，简直是小儿科。
The critically endangered language belongs to the Tupi language family. As of 2007, there was only one remaining speaker.
这种严重濒危的语言属于图皮语系，截至2007年只剩下一个使用者。

He taught her a love of family, faith,music and language.
The family language is what makes them very human; they embody this very specific family language.
家庭的语言让他们更人性化;,他们体现着这个特殊的家庭语言。
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a lot of people want to maintain the language that their family, either themselves or their parents spoke.
其中很多人，不管是学生自己还是他们的家长，都想要保留自己种族的语言。
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Some linguists, though, instead classify them as separate languages within a language family, analogous to the French, Spanish and Italian languages within the Romance language family.
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Recent research has shown that the language family tree as reconstructed by linguists overlaps remarkably well with the one independently drawn for the corresponding people by molecular biologists.
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