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  2. List of proto-languages - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Trans–New Guinea (list) Proto-Austronesian (list) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. Proto-Malayic. Proto-Philippine. Proto-Oceanic. Proto-Central Pacific language. Proto-Polynesian. Proto-Admiralty Islands.

  3. Proto-language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-language. 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 ...

  4. Category:Proto-languages - Wikipedia

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    A. Proto-Abkhaz–Abaza language. Proto-Admiralty Islands language. Proto-Afroasiatic language. Proto-Albanian language. Proto-Algic language. Proto-Algonquian language. Proto-Alor–Pantar. Proto-Anatolian language.

  5. 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. It presupposes a monogenetic origin of language, i.e. the derivation of all natural languages from a single origin ...

  6. List of ancestor languages - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Proto-Afroasiatic language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Though estimations vary widely, it is believed by scholars to have been spoken as a single language around 12,000 to 18,000 years ago (12 to 18 kya ...

  8. Linguistic reconstruction - Wikipedia

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    A language reconstructed in this way is often referred to as a proto-language (the common ancestor of all the languages in a given family); examples include Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Dravidian. Texts discussing linguistic reconstruction commonly preface reconstructed forms with an asterisk (*) to distinguish them from attested forms.

  9. Proto-Germanic language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East Germanic and North Germanic. [1]