parent language
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Linguists believe that these similar languages derived from an ancient parent language often described as “proto-Bantu.”
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
This single parent language – known as Proto Indo-European – spawned all these later languages and their shared word for paters.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2022
And she has been invited to present her ideas for a parent language initiative to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy in early October.
From Slate • Sep. 27, 2013
The way linguists compare words from descendant languages to reconstruct the parent language is called, appropriately, the comparative method.
From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2013
In the parent language also, it is used as an auxiliary.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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