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  2. List of language families - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".

  3. Variety (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, [1] is a specific form of a language or language cluster.This may include languages, dialects, registers, styles, or other forms of language, as well as a standard variety. [2]

  4. Language family - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 November 2024. Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor 2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's primary language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The ...

  5. Language classification - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, language classification is the grouping of related languages into the same category. There are two main kinds of language classification: genealogical ...

  6. List of galaxy groups and clusters - Wikipedia

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    The BCG of this cluster was also the most distant galaxy of the time. [51] [53] Gemini Cluster 1932 − 1936 0.075 23 000 The BCG of this cluster was the most distant galaxy at the time. [53] [54] WH Christie's Leo Cluster 1931–1932 19 700 The BCG of this cluster was the most distant galaxy known at the time. [51] [54] [55] [56] [57]

  7. Cognitive categorization - Wikipedia

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    Categorization is a type of cognition involving conceptual differentiation between characteristics of conscious experience, such as objects, events, or ideas.It involves the abstraction and differentiation of aspects of experience by sorting and distinguishing between groupings, through classification or typification [1] [2] on the basis of traits, features, similarities or other criteria that ...

  8. Proto-language - Wikipedia

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    It is also sometimes called the common or primitive form of a language (e.g. Common Germanic, Primitive Norse). [1] In the strict sense, a proto-language is the most recent common ancestor of a language family, immediately before the family started to diverge into the attested daughter languages.

  9. Local Group - Wikipedia

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    The term "The Local Group" was introduced by Edwin Hubble in Chapter VI of his 1936 book The Realm of the Nebulae. [11] There, he described it as "a typical small group of nebulae which is isolated in the general field" and delineated, by decreasing luminosity, its members to be M31, Milky Way, M33, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, M32, NGC 205, NGC 6822, NGC 185, IC 1613 and ...