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Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location. Africa. Proto-Afroasiatic. Proto-Semitic; Proto-Cushitic;
This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered writing systems , though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages.
In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method. [1]
This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ancestor disappeared. For each language ...
The oldest Indo-European language texts are Hittite and date from the 19th century BC in Kültepe (modern eastern Turkey), and while estimates vary widely, the spoken Indo-European languages are believed to have developed at the latest by the 3rd millennium BC (see Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses). Thus, the pre-Indo-European languages ...
It evolved from the Proto-Armenian language which, according to the Armenian hypothesis, developed in situ from the Proto-Indo-European language of the 3rd millennium BC. [20] [21] Balto-Slavic, believed by most Indo-Europeanists [22] to form a phylogenetic unit, while a minority ascribes similarities to prolonged language-contact.
a Proto-human language, the hypothetical, most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages; the date of attestation in writing . see list of languages by first written accounts. the conservative nature of a given language (low rate of language change, viz. "old" in the sense of "has not changed much for a long time"), see
Vowel correspondences in Semitic languages (in proto-Semitic stressed syllables) [47] pS Arabic Aramaic Hebrew Geʽez Akkadian Classical Modern usually 4 /_C.ˈV /ˈ_. 1 /ˈ_Cː 2 /ˈ_C.C 3 *a a a a ə ā a ɛ a, later ä a, e, ē 5 *i i i e, i, WSyr. ɛ ə ē e ɛ, e ə i *u u u u, o ə ō o o ə, ʷə 6: u *ā ā ā ā ō [note 2] ā, later a ...