Usually means: Language evolved from a parent language.
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  1. daughter language: Wiktionary
  2. daughter language: Infoplease Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (daughter language)

▸ noun:  (linguistics) A language which genetically descends from an earlier parent language.

Similar:
language family, family, heritage language, mother tongue, daughter, second language, adstratum, superstratum, killer language, Proto-Dravidian, more...

Opposite:
parent language, source language, ancestral language

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Similar:
language family, family, heritage language, mother tongue, daughter, second language, adstratum, superstratum, killer language, Proto-Dravidian, more...

Opposite:
parent language, source language, ancestral language



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