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==Genetic relationship==

The term "genetic relationship" above is meant in the sense of [[historical linguistics]]., by which Almostalmost all languages spoken in the world today can be grouped by this criterion into a relatively small number of [[language family|families]]. Thus —[[English language|English]] is clearlybeing related to several other [[Indo-European languages]], and [[Mandarin language|Mandarin]] to many other [[Sino-Tibetan languages]]. Language isolatesThe arerelatively fewsmall andnumber scatteredof andlanguage asisolates such,in tendscomparison to increasethese thelanguages amountmakes ofthem workparticularly thatinteresting is done on themlinguistically.

==Looking for relationship==