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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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    These are hypothetical proto-languages that cannot be substantiated using the scientific methods of comparative linguistics. Proto-Altaic; Proto-Boreal Proto-Eurasiatic; Proto-Ural-Altaic; Proto-Austric; Proto-Amerind; Proto-Human language

  4. Proto-language - Wikipedia

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    In the strict sense, a proto-language is the most recent common ancestor of a language family, immediately before the family started to diverge into the attested daughter languages. It is therefore equivalent with the ancestral language or parental language of a language family. [2] Moreover, a group of lects that are not considered separate ...

  5. Origin of language - Wikipedia

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    The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.Scholars wishing to study the origins of language draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition, and comparisons between human language and systems of animal ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Proto-human - Wikipedia

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    Proto-human may refer to: Archaic Homo sapiens , a loosely defined classification that includes a number of varieties of Homo Australopithecina , a collective classification of extinct, close relatives of humans, some of which are probable ancestors of humans and early hominins

  8. Linguistic monogenesis and polygenesis - Wikipedia

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    According to monogenesis, human language arose only once in a single community, and all current languages come from the first original tongue. On the other hand, according to polygenesis, human languages came into being in several communities independently, and current tongues derived from different sources.

  9. Category:Proto-languages - Wikipedia

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    This category includes proto-languages and language families. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ... Proto-Human language ...