proto-language

See also: protolanguage

English

Alternative forms

• protolanguage

Etymology

From proto- +‎ language.

Noun

proto-language (countable and uncountable, plural proto-languages)

1. (linguistics) A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages in order to deduce the form and aspects of a common ancestor language that is no longer known.
2. (linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires a true language.

Synonyms

• ur-language
• Ursprache

Translations

common ancestor language

• Armenian: նախալեզու (hy) (naxalezu)
• Asturian: protollingua f
• Belarusian: прамо́ва f (pramóva)
• Bulgarian: праези́к m (praezík)
• Catalan: protollengua f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 祖語／祖语 (zou² jyu⁵)

  Mandarin: 祖語／祖语 (zh) (zǔyǔ), 原始語／原始语 (yuánshǐyǔ)

• Czech: prajazyk m
• Danish: ursprog
• Dutch: vooroudertaal
• Esperanto: pralingvo (eo)
• Estonian: algkeel
• Finnish: kantakieli (fi)
• French: protolangue (fr) f
• Galician: protolingua (gl) f
• Georgian: ფუძეენა (puʒeena), წინარე ენა (c̣inare ena), პროტო-ენა (ṗroṭo-ena)
• German: Ursprache (de) f
• Greek: πρωτογλώσσα (el) (protoglóssa)
• Hungarian: alapnyelv (hu), ősnyelv (hu), protonyelv
• Icelandic: frummál (is)
• Italian: protolingua f
• Japanese: 祖語 (ja) (そご, sogo)
• Kazakh: ататіл (atatıl), тектіл (tektıl), түптіл (tüptıl)
• Korean: 프로토어 (peuroto'eo)
• Lithuanian: prokalbė (lt) f
• Macedonian: прајазик m (prajazik)
• Norwegian: urspråk (no)
• Polish: prajęzyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: protolíngua (pt) f
• Romanian: protolimbă f
• Russian: праязы́к (ru) m (prajazýk)
• Sicilian: prutulingua f
• Slovak: prajazyk m, protojazyk m
• Spanish: protolengua f
• Swedish: urspråk (sv)
• Turkish: proto dil (tr), ön dil, ana dil (tr)
• Tuvan: өгбе дыл (ögbe dıl)
• Ukrainian: прамо́ва (uk) f (pramóva)
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ nguyên thủy, ngôn ngữ tổ tiên chung

See also

• reconstructed language