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  2. Proto-Human language - Wikipedia

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    The Proto-Human language, also known as Proto-Sapiens or Proto-World, is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages. [ 1 ] The concept is speculative and not amenable to analysis in historical linguistics .

  3. List of proto-languages - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location ...

  4. Proto-language - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Linguistic homeland - Wikipedia

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    A proto-language is the reconstructed or historically-attested parent language of a group of languages that are genetically related. Depending on the age of the language family under consideration, its homeland may be known with near-certainty (in the case of historical or near-historical migrations) or it may be very uncertain (in the case of ...

  6. Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Mayan language family is one of the best documented and most studied in the Americas. Modern Mayan languages descend from Proto-Mayan, a language thought to have been spoken at least 4,000 years ago; it has been partially reconstructed using the comparative method.

  7. Historical linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Scholars were concerned chiefly with establishing language families and reconstructing unrecorded proto-languages, using the comparative method and internal reconstruction. [6] The focus was initially on the well-known Indo-European languages , many of which had long written histories; scholars also studied the Uralic languages , another ...

  8. Linguistic areas of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    (Page numbers in this article refer to the pages of the linked PDF, not the journal version.) Sherzer, Joel. 1973. "Areal linguistics in North America." In Linguistics in North America, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok, 749–795. (CTL, vol. 10.) The Hague: Mouton. Sherzer, Joel. 1976. An areal-typological study of American Indian languages north of Mexico ...

  9. Indo-European migrations - Wikipedia

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    The (late) Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of a common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, as spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans after the split-off of Anatolian and Tocharian. PIE was the first proposed proto-language to be widely accepted by linguists. Far more work has gone into reconstructing it than ...