The Proto-Human language, also known as Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World, or the Urlanguage is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages...

of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended...

Look up proto or proto-human in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Proto-human may refer to: Archaic Homo sapiens, a loosely defined classification that...

Look up proto-language in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A proto-language is a hypothetical or reconstructed language from which a number of known languages...

The Proto-Kartvelian language, or Common Kartvelian (Georgian: წინარექართველური ენა, romanized: ts'inarekartveluri ena, Georgian: პროტოქართველური ენა...

Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the...

Proto-Indo-Iranian, also called Proto-Indo-Iranic or Proto-Aryan, is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Its...

Proto-North Dravidian, Proto-Central Dravidian, and Proto-South Dravidian, although the date of diversification is still debated. As a proto-language...

of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location. Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Proto-Cushitic Proto-Berber Proto-Chadic...

sapiens and proto-Human from Africa." in Mother Tongue, issue XVIII, p. 143–188, 2013, where he argues that Nostratic and Dene-Caucasian as language phyla within...

Proto-Armenian is the earlier, unattested stage of the Armenian language which has been reconstructed by linguists. As Armenian is the only known language...

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...

Proto-Eskimoan, Proto-Eskimo, or Proto-Inuit-Yupik, is the reconstructed ancestor of the Eskimo languages. It was spoken by the ancestors of the Yupik...

languages Indo-Uralic languages Proto-Human language Proto-Uralic language Ural–Altaic languages Uralic–Yukaghir languages Uralo-Siberian languages Campbell...

Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages...

Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is thought to have originally...

The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries. Scholars wishing to study...

these languages spread from a "refuge" area at the Last Glacial Maximum. Indo-Semitic languages Indo-Uralic languages Nostratic languages Proto-Human language...

widely accepted even among Altaicists themselves. A common ancestral Proto-Altaic language for the "Macro" family has been tentatively reconstructed by Sergei...

Proto-Austroasiatic is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austroasiatic languages. Proto-Mon–Khmer (i.e., all Austroasiatic branches except for Munda)...

Latin characters. Proto-Tocharian, also spelled Proto-Tokharian (/təˈkɛəriən/ or /təˈkɑːriən/), is the reconstructed proto-language of the extinct Tocharian...

origins of language Origin of language Proto-Human language Universal language Enochian Sacred language "Is 'Ge'ez' the original language of humanity...

"dialects" as follows: Proto-Ainu Proto-Hokkaido–Kuril Hokkaido dialects Kuril dialects Proto-Sakhalin Sakhalin dialects The proto-language was reconstructed...

Middle Korean had a pitch accent rather than a full tone system. In the proto-language, accent was probably not distinctive for verbs, but may have been for...

Proto-Kra–Dai (typically abbreviated as PKD) is the proposed reconstructed ancestor of the Kra–Dai languages. No full reconstruction of Proto-Kra–Dai...

languages as well. Other major characteristics include: The retention of the Proto-Celtic sequences *am and *an, which mostly result from the Proto-Indo-European...

Proto-Niger–Congo is the hypothetical reconstructed proto-language of the proposed Niger–Congo language family. Unlike Nilo-Saharan, the Niger–Congo language...

The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), meaning it was the region where the proto-language...

variously dated to the 12th and 15th centuries. Compared with Proto-Vietic, the language had lost the voicing distinction on stop initials, giving rise...

Proto-Philippine language is a reconstructed ancestral proto-language of the Philippine languages, a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian languages which...