Editing Language classification

In [[linguistics]], '''language classification''' is the grouping of related languages into the same category. There are two main kinds of language classification: genealogical and typological classification.<ref>{{cite web |title=Linguistics - Language classification |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/linguistics/Language-classification |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=19 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Genealogical (or genetic) classification==
Languages are grouped by [[Synchrony and diachrony|diachronic]] relatedness into [[Language family|language families]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Language Typology: Analytic versus Synthetic Languages |url=http://www.ello.uos.de/field.php/Morphology/AnalyticVersusSynthetic |website=ELLO (English Language and Linguistics Online) |accessdate=19 September 2020}}</ref> In other words, languages are grouped based on how they were developed and evolved throughout history, with languages which descended from a common ancestor being grouped into the same language family.

==Typological classification==
{{Main|Linguistic typology}}
Languages are grouped by their structural and functional features.

== See also ==
* [[Genetic relationship (linguistics)|Genetic relationship]]
* [[List of language families]]

== References ==
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