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A '''stock''' is a [[genealogical group]] of languages of considerable [[time depth]], where the relatedness of the languages is typically not evident and can only be shown after detailed historical-comparative work.

:::*''"The stock, a grouping of about the diversity and time depth of Indo-European, exhibiting correspondences which are regular (though often not transparent to non-sepcialists), substantial cognate vocabulary, and significant cognate paradigmaticity in grammar. The time depth aimed at is over 5000 years (Indo-European is some 6000 years old). The stock is the highest level reconstructible by the standard comparative method."'' (Nichols 1992:24-25)

===Synonym===
*[[phylum]]

===Origin===

English ''stock'' (originally 'tree trunk or stump') has long been used in the sense of 'origin' or 'family', apparently following Latin ''stirps'' 'trunk; origin; family'. The OED has attestations of ''stock'' referring to languages families since the 18th century.

===Reference===
*Nichols, Johanna. 1992. ''Linguistic diversity in space and time.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

===Other languages===
*German [[Sprachstamm]]

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