A language considered as derived from another (parent)
In historical linguistics, a daughter language, also known as descendant language, is a language descended from another language, its mother language, through a process of genetic descent.[1] If more than one language has developed from the same proto-language, or 'mother language', those languages are said to be sister languages, members of the same language family. These concepts are linked to the tree model of language evolution, in which the relationships between languages are compared with those between members of a family tree. This model captures the diversification of languages from a common source.[2]
Strictly speaking, the metaphor of the mother-daughter relationship can lead to a misunderstanding of language history, as daughter languages are direct continuations of the mother language, which have become distinct, principally by a process of gradual change; the languages are not separate entities "born" to a parent who eventually dies.
Mother languages do not "die", they generally become their daughter languages. This need not necessarily be the case, as is evidenced by the coexistence of Afrikaans and Dutch.
^Matthews, Peter H. (2014). The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics. Oxford University Press (Third ed.). Oxford. ISBN 9780191753060. OCLC 881847972.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Lyle., Campbell (2004). Historical linguistics : an introduction (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262532670. OCLC 54692867.
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describe the daughterlanguages within a language family as being genetically related. The divergence of a proto-language into daughterlanguages typically...
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earliest separation of Proto-Indo-European into the proto-languages of its individual daughter branches; it does not apply to any later analogous developments...
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a set of rules by which an ever-increasing number of reflexes in daughterlanguages may be derived from PIE roots. The number of explanations thus achieved...
languages are languages that are descended from a common ancestral language. Every language in a language family that descends from the same language...
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language with sufficient extant linguistic material, might be the daughterlanguage of any of these or just a sister branch. Buyla inscription Encyclopædia...
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