Noun
proto-language (countable and uncountable, plural proto-languages)
- (linguistics) A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages in order to deduce the form and aspects of a common ancestor language that is no longer known.
- (linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires a true language.
Translations
common ancestor language
- Armenian: նախալեզու (hy) (naxalezu)
- Asturian: protollingua f
- Belarusian: прамо́ва f (pramóva)
- Bulgarian: праези́к m (praezík)
- Catalan: protollengua f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 祖語 / 祖语 (zou2 jyu5)
- Mandarin: 祖語 / 祖语 (zh) (zǔyǔ), 原始語 / 原始语 (yuánshǐyǔ)
- Czech: prajazyk m
- Danish: ursprog
- Dutch: vooroudertaal
- Esperanto: pralingvo (eo)
- Estonian: algkeel
- Finnish: kantakieli (fi)
- French: protolangue (fr) f
- Galician: protolingua (gl) f
- Georgian: ფუძეენა (puʒeena), წინარე ენა (c̣inare ena), პროტო-ენა (ṗroṭo-ena), საერთო ენა (saerto ena)
- German: Ursprache (de) f
- Greek: πρωτογλώσσα (el) (protoglóssa)
- Hindi: आदिभाषा f (ādibhāṣā)
- Hungarian: alapnyelv (hu), ősnyelv (hu), protonyelv
- Icelandic: frummál (is)
- Indonesian: bahasa proto
- Italian: protolingua f
- Japanese: 祖語 (ja) (そご, sogo)
- Kashmiri: جَد زَبان (jad zabān)
- Kazakh: ататіл (atatıl), тектіл (tektıl), түптіл (tüptıl)
- Korean: 프로토어 (peuroto'eo)
- Lithuanian: prokalbė (lt) f
- Macedonian: прајазик m (prajazik)
- Norwegian: urspråk (no)
- Polish: prajęzyk (pl) m
- Portuguese: protolíngua (pt) f
- Romanian: protolimbă f
- Russian: праязы́к (ru) m (prajazýk)
- Sicilian: prutulingua f
- Slovak: prajazyk m, protojazyk m
- Slovene: prajezik m
- Spanish: protolengua f
- Swedish: urspråk (sv)
- Turkish: proto dil (tr), ön dil, ana dil (tr)
- Tuvan: өгбе дыл (ögbe dıl)
- Ukrainian: прамо́ва (uk) f (pramóva)
- Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ nguyên thủy, ngôn ngữ tổ tiên chung
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