Parent family traces a language family back to the single reconstructed ancestor it descends from. Wikipedia notes "all Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, linguistically reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European," spoken thousands of years before any written record. This dimension links a family back to the deeper ancestral family behind it.
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1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Australia
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Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact.
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