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  2. List of proto-languages - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Central Pacific language. Proto-Polynesian; Proto-Admiralty Islands; Proto-Temotu language; Proto-Micronesian language; Proto-Torres–Banks language; Proto-Kra ...

  3. Proto-language - Wikipedia

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    For example, Latin is the proto-language of the Romance language family, which includes such modern languages as French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Spanish. Likewise, Proto-Norse , the ancestor of the modern Scandinavian languages , is attested, albeit in fragmentary form, in the Elder Futhark .

  4. Category:Proto-languages - Wikipedia

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    This category includes proto-languages and language families. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ...

  5. Proto-Germanic language - Wikipedia

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    The language of these sentences is known as Proto-Norse, although the delineation of Late Common Germanic from Proto-Norse at about that time is largely a matter of convention. The first coherent text recorded in a Germanic language is the Gothic Bible , written in the later fourth century in the East Germanic variety of the Thervingi Gothic ...

  6. 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.

  7. Linguistic homeland - Wikipedia

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    A proto-language is the reconstructed or historically-attested parent language of a group of languages that are genetically related. Depending on the age of the language family under consideration, its homeland may be known with near-certainty (in the case of historical or near-historical migrations) or it may be very uncertain (in the case of ...

  8. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The exact form given depends on the specific language: For the Germanic languages and for Welsh , the infinitive is given. For Latin , the Baltic languages , and the Slavic languages , the first-person singular present indicative is given, with the infinitive supplied in parentheses.

  9. 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 .