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Protolanguage

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.

📖 Definitions of "Protolanguage"

noun
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.

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