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Meaning of proto-language

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

proto-language

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.