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  2. List of proto-languages - Wikipedia

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    Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location. Africa. Proto-Afroasiatic. Proto-Semitic; Proto-Cushitic;

  3. Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Mayan language family is one of the best documented and most studied in the Americas. Modern Mayan languages descend from Proto-Mayan, a language thought to have been spoken at least 4,000 years ago; it has been partially reconstructed using the comparative method.

  4. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First ...

  5. 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. ...

  6. Proto-language - Wikipedia

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    In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method. [1]

  7. Uto-Aztecan languages - Wikipedia

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    The Uto-Aztecan [a] languages [b] are a family of native American languages, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The name of the language family reflects the common ancestry of the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan) of ...

  8. List of ancestor languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ancestor disappeared. For each language, the list is generally limited to the four or five immediate predecessors.

  9. Classification of the Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    Pre-contact distribution of North American language families north of Mexico The indigenous languages of Mexico that have more than 100,000 speakers The Chibchan languages. This is a list of different language classification proposals developed for the Indigenous languages of the Americas or Amerindian languages. The article is divided into ...