Everything about Proto-language totally explained
A
proto-language is a
language which was the common ancestor of related languages that form a
language family. The
German term
Ursprache (derived from the prefix
Ur- "primordial" and
Sprache "language") is occasionally used as well.
In most cases, the ancestral protolanguage isn't known directly and it has to be
reconstructed by comparing different members of the language family via a technique called the
comparative method. Through this process only a part of the proto-language's structure and vocabulary can be reconstructed; the reconstruction remains the more fragmentary the more ancient the proto-language in question relative to the number of its descendants. Examples of unattested but (partially) reconstructed proto-languages include
Proto-Indo-European,
Proto-Uralic,
Proto-Bantu and
Proto-Paman. Sometimes, however, the proto-language is a language which is known from inscriptions, an example being the
Proto-Norse language attested in the
Elder Futhark runic inscriptions.. For more examples of proto-languages, see the category "proto-languages" (below).
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