Talk:Daughter language

Example needed
An example would be greatAndycjp (talk) 00:19, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Points for possible inclusion
Two questions, both of which could be answered in an expanded version of this stub:

1. Is English considered to be a daughter language of Old English (Anglo-Saxon), or are they considered to be the same language since nothing else branched off from Old English?

2. Is there any argument for referring to a creole language as a daughter of its superstrate or substrate? Duoduoduo (talk) 19:56, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Also:

3. How many daughter-parent pairs are there in which both the daughter and the parent are non-extinct? (The article lists two: Afrikaans/Dutch and Malayalam/Tamil. What other examples if any are there?  Duoduoduo (talk) 15:39, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

4. Why is it called a "daughter" language and not a "child" language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.44.71.138 (talk) 21:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

No such thing as "son language"
I've removed the reference to "son language" added by User:Straight-Outta-Negros-0013. I've never heard it used, and searching Google Books only shows references to religion or father/son language, not descendant languages. It's a weird historical accident that linguists refer to daughter/sister languages (and daughter nodes in syntax trees), but not "son" languages. (Computer scientists use genderless "child" for tree nodes—it's weird.) Trey314159 (talk) 21:18, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

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