Proto Language

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A proto-language is the common ancestor of the languages that form a language family. Occasionally, the German term Ursprache is used instead. Often the proto-language is not known directly. In such cases, it may be reconstructed by comparing different members of the language family through the comparative method. The level of completeness of the reconstruction achieved varies, depending on how complete the evidence is from the descendant languages and on the quality of the effort of the linguists working on it. Some of the many unattested proto-languages for which reconstructions have been devised are Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic, and Proto-Dravidian.

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