Multiple choice

Groups of languages that have similar roots are known as

  1. language clusters

  2. language groups

  3. language famlies

  4. all of the above
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Explanation

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language, often referred to as a protolanguage. For example, the Indo-European family includes languages ranging from Spanish to Hindi. Language groups and clusters are smaller subdivisions within these larger families.

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