sister language
nounEtymology Perhaps a calque of German Schwestersprache.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A cognate language; a language that is related to another by virtue of descending from a common ancestral language.
noun
Etymology Perhaps a calque of German Schwestersprache.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A cognate language; a language that is related to another by virtue of descending from a common ancestral language.
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