Language Families

This project was apart of Codecademy's Java for Programmers course. I completed this project after finishing the Object-Oriented Programming in Java section.

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Languages, just like people, often have families. You can even map language lineage a bit like a family tree.

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Java can help us build a model to track inherited traits across families. In this case, we’ll focus on something that often varies between language families: word order — where the subject, verb, and object would go in a sentence.

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My Language Inheritance package had three Java files:

• Language.java: for the Language parent class, which serves as the template for all languages.
• Mayan.java: for Mayan, a child class of Language modeled after the Mayan language family.
• SinoTibetan.java: for SinoTibetan, a child class of Language modeled after the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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My objective was to build out a Java package with these classes to model real-world language families.