Synonyms & related words for protolanguage

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Words related to protolanguage

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Where does protolanguage come from?

The word protolanguage breaks down into 2 roots of Greek and Latin origin: proto-, from Greek protos (“ancestral, first”); and language, from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.