PROTOLANGUAGE

Meaning of PROTOLANGUAGE in English

/proh"toh lang'gwij/ , n. Ling.

the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.

[ 1945-50; PROTO- + LANGUAGE ]

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PROTOLANGUAGE — noun Date: 1948 an assumed or recorded ancestral language
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PROTOLANGUAGE — “+ noun Etymology: prot- + language : the assumed or recorded ancestral language of a language or group of languages …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PROTOLANGUAGE — n. recorded or reconstructed ancestral language; assumed parent form of language or a group of connected languages
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PROTOLANGUAGE — noun Date: 1948 : an assumed or recorded ancestral language
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PROTOLANGUAGE — [pro.to.lan.guage] n (1948): an assumed or recorded ancestral language
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PROTOLANGUAGE — protolanguag|e BrE AmE ˈprəʊt əʊ ˌlæŋ ɡwɪdʒ -wɪdʒ, ˌ••ˈ•• AmE \ ˈproʊt̬ oʊ- ▷ protolanguag|es ɪz əz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PROTOLANGUAGE — праязык
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PROTOLANGUAGE — Праязык
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PROTOLANGUAGE — n лингв. праязык
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PROTOLANGUAGE — (n) праязык
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PROTOLANGUAGE — n лингв. праязык
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PROTOLANGUAGE — n лингв. праязык
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PROTOLANGUAGE — праязык
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PROTOLANGUAGE — n. Pronunciation: ' pr ō -t ō - ˌ la ŋ -gwij Function: noun Date: 1948 : an assumed or …
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BALTIC LANGUAGES — Branch of the Lithuanian , Latvian , and Old Prussian. They were or are spoken along the eastern and southeastern …
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URHEIMAT — /oor"huy'maht/ ; Ger. /oohrdd"huy'maht/ , n. the primeval habitation of a people, esp. the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of …
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PROTO-FORM — /proh"toh fawrm'/ , n. Ling. a hypothetical linguistic form reconstructed as an element of a protolanguage. [ 1960-65 ]
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PRIMITIVE — — primitively , adv. — primitiveness, primitivity , n. /prim"i tiv/ , adj. 1. being the first or earliest of …
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PENUTIAN — /peuh nooh"tee euhn, -sheuhn/ , n. 1. a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including …
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NA-DENE — /nah day"nee, nah'day nay"/ , n. 1. a group of North American Indian languages, comprising the Athabaskan family, Eyak, Tlingit, …
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GENETICAL — adj. of or pertaining to genetics, of or relating to genes; hereditary, familial; affecting or determined by genes; (Linguistics) of …
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LANGUAGES, CLASSIFICATION OF — placement of languages into families or phyla on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may …
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TAI LANGUAGES — closely related family of languages, of which the Thai (Siamese) language of Thailand is the most important member. Because the …
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ROMANCE LANGUAGES — Figure 2: Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times …
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NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS — proposed, but still controversial, language family of northern Eurasia. The term Nostratic was proposed in 1903 by the Danish linguist …
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KARTVELIAN LANGUAGES — also called South Caucasian languages, or Iberian languages family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken …
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JAPANESE LANGUAGE — one of the world's major languages, ranking ninth in terms of the number of speakers with 125 million. It is …
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INDO-HITTITE LANGUAGES — hypothetical family of languages composed of the Indo-European and Anatolian languages. The term Indo-Hittite was proposed by scholars who believed …
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GERMANIC LANGUAGES
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DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES — family of 23 languages spoken in South Asia. The major languages are Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gondi, Kurukh, and Tulu. …
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AUSTROASIATIC LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Austroasiatic languages. also spelled Austro-Asiatic, stock of some 150 languages spoken by more than 65 million people …
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AFRO-ASIATIC LANGUAGES — also called Afrasian languages, formerly called Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean languages, family of genetically related languages that developed from a …
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