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भाषा-परिवार

[bha-sha-pa-ri-var]

noun

LanguageHindi (India)

Meaning
  1. language family
  2. A group of related languages that are believed to have descended from a common ancestral language.
Examples

हिंदी भाषा-परिवार के अंतर्गत आती है।

Hindi belongs to a language family.

इंडो-आर्यन एक बड़ा भाषा-परिवार है।

Indo-Aryan is a large language family.

Pronunciationbha-sha-pa-ri-var

Part of speechnoun

Registerformal

Usage noteYou will mostly encounter this term in academic or historical discussions about how languages are related to one another.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.