proto-language

noun

Meaning

A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages to try to deduce what a common ancestor language, no longer known, would have been like.
The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

protolanguage(English)urlanguage(English)paleolinguistics(English)proto-human(English)proto-algonquian(English)proto-afroasiatic(English)proto-austric(English)proto-algic(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

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