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protolanguage
1. An ancestral language that is reconstructed by comparing elements in known related languages and creating a hypothetical form of their common parent language.
2. A recorded or reconstructed language that is the ancestor of another language or family of languages.
2. A recorded or reconstructed language that is the ancestor of another language or family of languages.
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