Genus (linguistics)
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In linguistics, a genus is a group of phylogenetically related languages inside a linguistic family, in particular a genus is a group of languages which can be recognized as related languages without using complex methods of historical linguistics. The notion of genus was proposed by M. Dryer,[1] and is used commonly in some academic projects such as WALS.[2] According to WALS most families can be subdivided into a certain number of genera, so the notion is similar to the term subfamily.