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English[en]
The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy.
Latin[la]
Nomen familia exemplar arboreum originis linguarum in linguistica historica in memoriam redigit metaphoram adhibens quae linguas cum hominibus in biologica arbore familiari, vel in modificatione posteriori, cum speciebus in arbore phylogenetica taxinomiae evolutionariae comparat.