parent language

This single parent language – known as Proto Indo-European – spawned all these later languages and their shared word for paters.

Scholars have argued for two centuries about the identity and homeland of those who spoke this parent language, but a surprisingly sudden resolution of this longstanding issue may be at hand.

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.

The way linguists compare words from descendant languages to reconstruct the parent language is called, appropriately, the comparative method.

That these clans constituted one race was evident to the Romans, for they all had a striking similarity in type of body; moreover, a closer acquaintance revealed that their numerous dialects were all variations of the same parent language, and finally, they resembled each other in customs, traditions, and religion.