proto-language
Noun
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Noun
proto-language
- (linguistics) 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.
- (linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.
- French: protolangue
- German: Ursprache
- Italian: protolingua
- Portuguese: proto-língua, protolíngua
- Russian: праязы́к
- Spanish: protolengua
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