单词 | sister language |
释义 | > as lemmassister language sister language n. a language closely related to another; a cognate language. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. 22 Hee that seeth how Iohn or Iames are transported in such vnlike sounds from the Originall, in Greeke, Latine, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, English..would scarcely acknowledge them..to haue any kindred either to the mother tongue, or in these many sister languages. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §1. 303 The Greek and Latin Tongues I consider as Sister-Languages. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 246 Other great nations in India whose idioms are sister languages of the people of Tamul. 1999 H.-M. Sohn Korean Lang. i. 11 Korean and Japanese are widely regarded as each other's closest sister language. < as lemmas |
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