English
Etymology
proto- + language
Noun
proto- language (countable and uncountable , plural proto-languages )
( 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 .
Synonyms
Translations
common ancestor language
Armenian: նախալեզու (hy) ( naxalezu )
Belarusian: прамо́ва f ( pramóva )
Bulgarian: праези́к m ( praezík )
Catalan: protollengua f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 祖語 / 祖语 ( zou2 jyu5 ) , 祖语 ( zou2 jyu5 )
Mandarin: 祖語 / 祖语 ( zǔyǔ ) , 祖语 ( zǔyǔ ) , 原始語 / 原始语 ( yuánshǐyǔ ) , 原始语 ( yuánshǐyǔ )
Czech: prajazyk m
Esperanto: pralingvo (eo)
Estonian: algkeel
Finnish: kantakieli (fi)
French: protolangue (fr) f
Galician: protolingua f
Georgian: ფუძეენა ( puʒeena ) , წინარე ენა ( c̣inare ena ) , პროტო-ენა ( ṗroṭo-ena )
German: Ursprache (de) f
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Greek: πρωτογλώσσα ( protoglóssa )
Italian: protolingua f
Japanese: 祖語 (ja) ( そご, sogo )
Kazakh: ататіл ( atatıl ) , тектіл ( tektıl ) , түптіл ( tüptıl )
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: prokalbė (lt) f
Macedonian: прајазик m ( prajazik )
Polish: prajęzyk (pl) m
Portuguese: proto-língua f , protolíngua (pt) f
Romanian: protolimbă f
Russian: праязы́к (ru) m ( prajazýk )
Slovak: prajazyk m , protojazyk m
Spanish: protolengua f
Ukrainian: прамо́ва (uk) f ( pramóva )
Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ nguyên thủy , ngôn ngữ tổ tiên chung
See also