That’s because Old English belongs to the Germanic language family.

这是因为古英语属于日耳曼语族。

She could not speak the family's language, and each evening Felix taught her some words.

她不会说那个家庭的语言，菲力克斯每个晚上都要教她几个单词。

We know there is a correlation between the immigration patterns and the new generations wanting to learn a family language.

我们知道对于移民家庭而言，年轻一代人想要学习家乡的语言。

Spanish and Italian are part of the Romance language family.

【family】西班牙语和意大利语属于罗曼语系。

A tree model for a language family starts with one language, which we call a mother language, for example, Proto-Indo-European.

一个语系的树模型从一种语言开始，我们称之为母语，例如原始印欧语。

For the nut (fun fact) the closer you live to where the tree naturally grows, the more likely you are to say pecAHn, which we get from the Algonquian language family.

对于坚果来说（有趣的事实），你住的地方离树自然生长的地方越近越好、就越有可能说 pecAHn，我们是从阿尔贡金语系中得到这个词的。

Many mysteries remain just out of reach such as whether there might be a link between Indo-European and other major language family and the nature of the languages spoken in Europe, prior to its arrival.

许多谜团已经无从知晓，像是印欧语和其他主要语系之间是否存在关联，或是在合格语言来到欧洲之前，他们都是说着什么语言的。