PROTOLANGUAGE

13 letters 17 Scrabble points

Definition of PROTOLANGUAGE

noun
  1. A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages to try to deduce what a common ancestor language, no longer known, would have been like.

  2. The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.

Related words: Ursprache ur-language

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters P R O T O L A N G U A G E
Length 13 letters
Scrabble Score 17 points