• Subgrouping in linguistics is the division of a language family into its constituent branches. In standard linguistic theory, subgroupings are determined...
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    A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...
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    Indosphere is a term used for areas of Indian linguistic influence in the neighboring Southern Asian, Southeast Asian, and East Asian regions. It is commonly...
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  • The Ten Small Mantras (Chinese: 十小咒; Pinyin: Shíxiǎozhòu) is a subgrouping of esoteric Buddhist mantras or dharanis in Chinese Buddhism. They were first...
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  • The Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust...
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  • International Handbook, Chapter V, page 425 Aaron D. Rubin (2008). "The subgrouping of the Semitic languages". Language and Linguistics Compass. 2 (1). Blackwell...
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    sometimes romanized as Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is primarily...
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    tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family. The Thunnini comprise 15 species...
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  • The West Barito languages are a group of half a dozen Dayak (Austronesian) languages of Borneo, Indonesia. They are named after the Barito River. The languages...
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    boundaries between branches. The first major step towards high-order subgrouping was Dempwolff's recognition of the Oceanic subgroup (called Melanesisch...
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    is a more accurate representation. Most approaches to Indo-European subgrouping to date have assumed that the tree model is by-and-large valid for Indo-European;...
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  • Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language...
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    The Illyrians (Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula...
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    Common Delaware, a further subgroup. The amount of evidence for each subgrouping varies, and the incomplete record for many parts of the Eastern Algonquian...
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  • "Beta" and "Gamma" tiers. The three tiers are further divided into subgroupings using plus and minus signs. The categorization is based upon the author's...
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    Weser–Rhine Germanic is a proposed subgrouping of West Germanic languages, which includes both Central German dialects and Low Franconian, the ancestor...
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    The Finnic or Baltic Finnic languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There...
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    The South Sulawesi languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. They are primarily spoken in the Indonesian provinces of South Sulawesi...
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    Min (simplified Chinese: 闽语; traditional Chinese: 閩語; pinyin: Mǐnyǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-gú / Bân-gír / Bân-gí; BUC: Mìng-ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Sinitic...
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  • The Paleo-Balkan languages are a geographical grouping of various Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Balkans and surrounding areas in ancient...
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  • have been more complex. The linguistic use of the label (referring to a subgrouping of Bantu) is relatively stable. From an English editorial perspective...
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  • by a technique called functional subgrouping. Rather than individual members working alone, functional subgrouping requires that all members of a system...
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  • "Megalo"-comparison) for the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman (Ph.D. dissertation). Stanford University. Thurgood, Graham (2003), "A subgrouping of the Sino-Tibetan...
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    Germanic, also called Irminonic or Erminonic,: 17–18  is a proposed subgrouping of West Germanic languages introduced by the German linguist Friedrich...
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  • dissertation. The Visayan subgrouping is Zorc's own work, while the Bikol subgrouping is from McFarland (1974) and the Mansakan subgrouping from Gallman (1974)...
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    prehistory and internal subgrouping of Malayic". In John Bowden; Nikolaus Himmelmann (eds.). Papers in Austronesian subgrouping and dialectology. Canberra:...
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    (2008). "The Distribution of Data in Word Lists and its Impact on the Subgrouping of Languages". In Preisach, Christine; Burkhardt, Hans; Schmidt-Thieme...
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  • speakers today. The dialects are one of the Italian languages and are a subgrouping of the Judeo-Romance Languages. Some words have Italian prefixes and...
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    "Problems in the Reconstruction of Proto-Philippine Phonology and the Subgrouping of the Philippine Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 13 (1/2): 457–509...
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  • and labourist parties. In general, they agree that there are various subgroupings within far-left politics, such as the radical left and the extreme left...
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