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Proto-Languages and Their Role in Language History
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What is a proto-language?
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A language that is the ancestor of a family of languages
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A proto-language is a hypothetical language that is believed to be the common ancestor of a group of related languages. It is reconstructed based on evidence from the languages that descended from it.