Usually means: Hypothetical ancestor of related languages.
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  2. proto-language: Dictionary.com
  3. proto-language: Online Etymology Dictionary
  4. Proto-language: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (proto-language)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires a true language.

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