It's not as rich as biology, partly because we can't go as far back in time, but there is an established taxonomic structure:
variety (aka dialect, e.g. Western Canadian English)
language (English)
branch (West Germanic)
sub-family (Germanic)
family/phylum/stock (Indo-European)
macrofamily/superfamily (Nostratic???, hard to find evidence)
"LUCA" (Proto-World???, no set term for this level, as it's purely speculative)
So "branch" is roughly equivalent to genus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family#Structure_of_a_family
Garden Variety Linguist /
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2024-06-21 14:19:05
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