Language Links: Getting to Know Your Language Family Tree
16 June 2020
One of the most helpful ways to understand how languages are related to each other is to think of them as families, where closely linked ‘family members’ share more in common than distant relations – just like a family tree, where languages are grouped based on common linguistic ancestors.
In this article, we explore the way languages are linked through their family histories, with a special focus on the Indo-European family (home to English and many other European languages).
