proto-language

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Alternative forms

• protolanguage

Noun

proto-language (plural proto-languages)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• ur-language

Translations

common ancestor language

• Armenian: նախալեզու (hy) (naxalezu)
• Finnish: kantakieli (fi)
• French: langue reconstruite (fr) f
• Italian: protolingua (it) f
• Macedonian: прајазик (mk) (prájazik) m

• Polish: prajęzyk (pl) m
• Romanian: protolimbă (ro) f, limbă reconstruită (ro) f
• Russian: праязык (ru) (prajazýk) m
• Spanish: protolengua (es) f, lengua reconstruida (es) f

See also

• reconstructed language