proto-language
English
noun
Definitions
- (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.
- (linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.
Etymology
Prefix from English language.
Origin
English
language
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antilanguage English
- bilanguage English
- colanguage English
- counterlanguage English
- cryptolanguage English
- cyberlanguage English
- epilanguage English
- high-level language English
- interlanguage English
- language English
- languaged English
- languagehood English
- languageless English
- languagelike English
- languager English
- languagescape English
- languagism English
- languagist English
- macrolanguage English
- metalanguage English
- minilanguage English
- multilanguage English
- nonlanguage English
- paralanguage English
- pseudolanguage English
- semilanguage English
- sublanguage English
- translanguage English
- urlanguage English
- ランゲージ Japanese
- langage Middle English
- language
- languaged
- languager
- urlanguage
- colanguage
- bilanguage
- languagism
- languagist
- sublanguage
- nonlanguage
- epilanguage
- antilanguage
- semilanguage
- minilanguage
- paralanguage
- languageless
- languagelike
- languagehood
- metalanguage
- languagescape
- cyberlanguage
- multilanguage
- translanguage
- macrolanguage
- interlanguage
- pseudolanguage
- cryptolanguage
- counterlanguage
- high-level language