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  2. List of proto-languages - Wikipedia

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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;

  3. 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.

  4. Uto-Aztecan languages - Wikipedia

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    The Uto-Aztecan [a] languages [b] are a family of native American languages, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The name of the language family reflects the common ancestry of the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan) of ...

  5. Linguistic homeland - Wikipedia

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    In historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (/ ˈ ʊər h aɪ m ɑː t / OOR-hye-maht, from German ur-'original' and Heimat 'home') of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages. A proto-language is the reconstructed or historically-attested parent language of a group of ...

  6. Mesoamerican languages - Wikipedia

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    Terrence Kaufman has argued that Nahuatl is an unlikely candidate because Proto-Nahuan did not enter Mesoamerica until around the time of the fall of Teotihuacan (c. 600 AD), and that Totonac or Mixe–Zoque are likely candidates because many Mesoamerican languages have borrowed from these two languages during the Classic period. [14]

  7. 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]

  8. Proto-Human language - Wikipedia

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    The Proto-Human language, ... 337 "The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family." Notable American ...

  9. Siouan languages - Wikipedia

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    For example, Matthews (1958: 129) gives *wróke as the proto-form for 'male.' With added data from a larger set of Siouan languages since the middle of the twentieth century, Rankin et al. (2015) give *waroː(-ka) as the reconstructed form for 'male.' Unlike Wolff and Matthew's proposals, there are no posited nasal consonants in Proto-Siouan.