The proto-human language (also proto-sapiens, proto-world) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's spoken languages. The concept...

reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto-Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify c. 4000...

conditions had arisen in other parts of the world. Proto-industrialization is also a term for a specific theory about proto-industries' role in the emergence of...

which led some commentators[who?] to characterize the situation as a "proto-world war", with many countries embroiled in overlapping conflicts. The Seven...

characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology). Without proper...

The proto-cuneiform script (occasionally referred to as archaic cuneiform) was a system of proto-writing that emerged in Mesopotamia, eventually developing...

into Proto-North Dravidian, Proto-Central Dravidian, and Proto-South Dravidian, although the date of diversification is still debated. As a proto-language...

characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology). Without proper...

topic of: Proto-Turkic Proto-Turkic is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Turkic languages that was spoken by the Proto-Turks before...

Look up proto or proto-human in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Proto-human may refer to: Archaic Homo sapiens, a loosely defined classification that...