Proto Languages

Word PROTO LANGUAGES
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Definitions and meanings of "Proto Languages"

What do we mean by proto languages?

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.

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

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The word "proto-languages" in example sentences

The original daughter languages of proto-Niger-Congo underwent further divergence, giving rise to their own daughter languages — and in so doing became intermediate proto-languages — and these daughter languages underwent further periods of divergence of their own. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While the precise genetic relationships, that is — how each of the descendant languages are related to one another — is a matter of lingering debate, there is consensus that the Niger-Congo family comprises an overarching genetic unit. 20 Of the many proto-languages evolved from Niger-Congo and their later descendants, none has garnered more scholarly attention than that of the Bantu branch. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I made this simple isogloss map to show at a glance how I would explain Proto-Steppe's development into the later proto-languages known and studied and it relates, as always, to the unpixelated view of the Wave Model of language change. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This blog is in large part a rebellion against the dumbed-down websites and books out there on ancient languages and proto-languages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Enjoying the beauty of proto-languages is what I'm all about and I do believe that experiencing a language through speaking it is the only way to truly understand a language and, by extension, its people. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At his site, a myriad of proto-languages seem to be tackled all at once but it centers around his personal baby: "North Caucasian" note that the name refers strictly to the languages of the northern regions of the Caucasus mountains, not to a racial term. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So I would suggest a date of 8000 BCE or so when the reduction of the vowel systems of both proto-languages would have begun to occur. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sadly, if you want a serious discussion and inspection of "long-range reconstruction" of any of the hypothesized proto-languages, such as Nostratic, you're probably going to have to wait a few centuries when an intellectual renaissance finally happens. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The idea occurs to us that we could treat these reconstructed proto-languages as inputs in their turn, and thus get further back in time to the beginning of language. ❋ RULON WELLS (1968)

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