Tag: proto-language definition
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Proto-Languages
Proto-Languages What is proto-language? Academics define Proto-languages as a linguistic reconstruction formulated by applying the comparative method to a group of languages featuring similar characteristics. The tree is a statement of similarity and a hypothesis that the similarity results from descent from a common language. Typically, linguists reconstruct proto-languages using a painstaking manual process known…
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