I used to be a linguist till I become a writer.

过去我是个语言, 后来成了作。

He used to be a linguist till he turns writer.

他过去是个语言, 后来成了作。

Historical linguists have to identify and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree, and to reconstruct the protolanguage.

历史语言们通过对各语系中相关语言进行甄别，勾画出族谱系图，从而重新构建语系的原始语。