There is no institutionalised standard variety but during the eighteenth century a new literary language descended from the old court Scots emerged.

Later, other languages not descended from Latin, such as English, inherited this feature as an orthographic convention.

They speak 30 distinct languages descended from proto-Maya.

Linguistic monogenesis is the hypothesis that there was a single proto-language, sometimes called Proto-Human, from which all other vocal languages spoken by humans descend.

Old English and the languages descended from it.

High Dutch was eventually to be replaced by Afrikaans a colloquially spoken language of many of the European descended settlers.

Loglan is now a generic term that refers both to James Cooke Brown's Loglan, and all languages descended from it.

These two languages descend from different branches of the Proto-Indo-Iranian language.

Of course it must conform to the requirements of broadcast television, so the language never descends further than an occasional grade-school epithet.

The Germanic languages, descended from Proto-Germanic.