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English
Etymology
Perhaps a calque of German Schwestersprache.
Noun
sister language (plural sister languages)
- (linguistics) A cognate language; a language that is related to another by virtue of descending from a common ancestral language.
- Coordinate terms: daughter language, parent language
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