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In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best.
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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages.
Proto-language refers to the theoretical reconstructed language that is considered to be the hypothetical ancestor of related languages. It is reconstructed by tracing the similarities and differences in languages that have a similar common origin.
A Proto-Indo-European Language Lexicon, and an Etymological Dictionary of Early Indo-European Languages. The database represents the updated text of J. Pokorny's “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, scanned and recognized by George Starostin (Moscow), who has also added the meanings.
The following is a table of many of the most fundamental Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants.
Jun 27, 2024 · 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.
Mar 22, 2021 · Introduction. In this paper, we discuss what a usage-based construction grammar (CxG) approach can contribute to the reconstruction of protolanguage (s).
