parent language

Noun

Meaning

parent language (plural parent languages)

A language from which a later language is derived.
Old English is the parent language of English and Scots.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

mother tongue first language native language

Examples

According to another view, the Anatolian subgroup left the Indo-European parent language comparatively late, approximately at the same time as Indo-Iranian and later than the Greek or Armenian divisions. Source: Internet

Shared retentions from the parent language are not sufficient evidence of a sub-group. Source: Internet

Moreover, a parent language may spawn several "dialects" which themselves subdivide any number of times, with some "branches" of the tree changing more rapidly than others. Source: Internet

It has a simplified syllable and sound structure and a simplified grammar as compared to Choctaw, its primary parent language. Source: Internet

Such contact languages usually lack the inflections of either parent language, or drastically simplify them. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

parent company parent compound parent figure parent material parent nuclide parent rock