Vi fant 2 definisjoner av proto-language på engelsk.
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Wiktionary
Substantiv
proto-language -
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.
OmegaWiki Dictionary
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proto-language A language that in the tree model of historical linguistics is a hypothetical, or reconstructed, typically extinct language from which a number of attested, or documented, known languages are believed to have descended by evolution, by slow and mostly gradual modification, into languages that form a known and documented language family.
