protolanguage
Noun
Meaning
protolanguage (countable and uncountable, plural protolanguages)
Alternative form of proto-language
Examples
Especially in Finland there has been a growing tendency to reject the Finno-Ugric intermediate protolanguage.
In this process, in between the two levels of the simple protolanguage system (the "expression" and "content" pairing of the Saussure's sign), an additional level of content is inserted.
The full reconstruction of an unrecorded protolanguage is an open-ended task.