Meanings
adjectivelanguageless (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout language.
No languageless human society has ever been discovered on the earth.
1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 21 more example
But in practice, we are not born into any particular language at all: all babies are languageless at the start of life.
2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 61
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