branch of a language family
Linguistics term for a subgroup of related languages within a larger family, e.g., the Germanic branch of Indo-European.
English belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
ロマンス語派にはフランス語やスペイン語が含まれる。
The Romance branch includes French and Spanish.
Semitic languages
Tai languages; Zhuang-Tai languages
Indic languages; Indo-Aryan languages
Celtic languages
Baltic languages
Compound of 語 (language) and 派 (faction, branch). The term is a modern linguistic coinage.