protolanguage

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English

Noun

protolanguage (countable and uncountable, plural protolanguages)

  1. Alternative form of proto-language
    • 1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, →ISBN, page 366:
      Bickerton suggests that Homo erectus spoke in protolanguage.