The language of the Persian people -- belonging to the Indo-European branch of languages -- apart from having a considerable influence on neighbouring languages and beyond, was once the lingua franca (lingua persica) of the central part of the Islamic world in the East, as well as in South Asia.
This language is most closely related to the Ch'olan branch of the language family, modern descendants of which include Ch'ol, Ch'orti' and Chontal.
National labels are problematical because words move easily from one branch of the language to another.
She hopes to turn an unused farmyard complex into a country branch of her language school and, while she's at it, fix Alfred up with a colleague of hers, a "thoroughly nice woman" who's a scholar to boot.
They speak Azerbaijani, a language belonging to the southwestern branch of Turkic languages.
Azerbaijani (also called Azeri) is a member of the Turkic branch of Altaic languages and has the largest number of speakers of any of the languages of Transcaucasia.
The country's official language, Polish (together with other Lekhitic languages and Czech, Slovak, and Upper and Lower Sorbian), belongs to the West Slavic branch of Slavic languages.
Danish belongs to the East Scandinavian branch of North Germanic languages.
Atlantic languages, formerly West Atlantic languages, branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken primarily in Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
Although parallel semantic shift involving cognate words in different branches of a language family is surely much rarer than borrowing, this has to be considered when applying the method to linguistic data.
