protolanguage

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A form of proto-language — 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.

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Meanings

nounprotolanguage (countable and uncountable, plural protolanguages)

plural protolanguages

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of proto-language.

    Bickerton suggests that Homo erectus spoke in protolanguage.

    1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, →ISBN, page 366
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