proto-language

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(linguistics) A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages to try to deduce what a common ancestor language, no longer known, would have been like.

Japanese Meaning

現存する言語の類似点から共通の祖先言語を推定し、再構築された言語。すなわち、現存する言語群に共通する特徴から、もはや記録が存在しない原始の言語の様相を推測して復元された言語。

What is this buttons?

Linguists compared the vocabularies of related languages to reconstruct the proto-language.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

言語学者たちは関連する言語の語彙を比較して、共通の祖語を再構築した。

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Sense（1）

(linguistics) A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages to try to deduce what a common ancestor language, no longer known, would have been like.

Sense（2）

(linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.

proto-languages

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