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To: Cowboy Bob

What, exactly, is a proto-language?

5 posted on 10/18/2018 11:04:31 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)

To: Cowboy Bob

A hypothetucal language ancestral to others.
E.G. proto-Germanic gave rise to German, Old Norse, Gothic. Frisian, etc

Proto-Indo-European gave rise to Proto-Germanic, etc.

11 posted on 10/19/2018 12:39:08 AM PDT by ZULU

To: Cowboy Bob

Me Tarzan

14 posted on 10/19/2018 2:57:20 AM PDT by babble-on

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