Talk:Sister language
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No such thing as "brother language"
[edit]I've removed the reference to "brother language" added by User:Straight-Outta-Negros-0013. I've never heard it used, and searching Google Books only shows references to the language of a human male sibling, not related languages. It's a weird historical accident that linguists refer to daughter/sister languages (and daughter nodes in syntax trees), but not "son/brother" languages. (Computer scientists use genderless "child" for tree nodes—it's weird.) Trey314159 (talk) 21:24, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- In several (all?) Romance languages the word language is feminine: French la langue, Spanish la lengua, Portuguese a língua, Italian la lingua. Thus it makes sense for languages to be considered sisters! ;-) Tsf (talk) 12:57, 27 July 2024 (UTC)