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linguistic stock

  1. a parent language and all the languages and dialects derived from it
  2. all the native speakers of any of these languages or dialects

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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