語系

language family

dialect / language / speech

to tell to

to connect / to relate to / to tie up / to bind / to be (literary)

system / department / faculty

to tie / to fasten / to button up

to connect / to arrest / to worry

anglophone / English department

Sino-Tibetan language family

Indo-European family of languages

Hamito-Semitic family of languages (incl. Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew etc)