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The 27 pages that link to Proto-language, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical linguisticsBroader topic: Comparative reconstruction aims to recover features of a shared ancestor.

• Language familyBroader topic: Each family is defined by descent from a common proto-language.

• LanguageRelated: It offers a method for tracing language families into the past.

• Language isolateRelated: A proposed family connection requires evidence for shared descent from an ancestor.

• Niger–Congo languagesRelated: Proto-Niger–Congo is a proposed ancestor, though its reconstruction remains disputed.

• CognateNarrower topic: Cognates are traced back to a shared ancestral form in a proto-language.

• Comparative linguisticsRelated: Comparative analysis uses correspondences to infer unattested ancestral forms.

• EtymologyNarrower topic: Reconstructed ancestors supply origins for words shared across related languages.

• Grimm's lawRelated: Proto-Indo-European consonants are inferred rather than directly attested.

• Proto-Indo-EuropeansNarrower topic: Proto-Indo-European is a major example of a reconstructed proto-language.

• Sino-Tibetan languagesNarrower topic: The family’s proposed ancestors are inferred rather than directly attested.

• Indigenous languages of the AmericasNarrower topic: Comparative linguists infer ancestral languages to trace family histories beyond written evidence.

• GlottochronologyRelated: A proposed divergence date helps place daughter languages relative to their shared ancestor.

• Indo-European linguisticsRelated: Proto-languages provide the intermediate ancestors used to trace Indo-European branches.

• Linguistic paleontologyNarrower topic: Its reconstructed lexicon is the primary evidence linguistic paleontology interprets.

• Proto-Bantu languageNarrower topic: Proto-Bantu is one reconstructed ancestor within the broader concept of proto-languages.

• Nilo-Saharan languagesRelated: A unified Nilo-Saharan family would imply a reconstructable common ancestor.

• Evolution of languagesRelated: Proto-languages represent earlier stages inferred from the shared features of descendant languages.

• Indo-European sound lawsNarrower topic: Indo-European sound laws describe changes from a shared ancestral system.

• Linguistic reconstructionNarrower topic: Reconstruction aims to describe the unattested ancestor behind related languages.

• Sound correspondenceNarrower topic: Correspondences can reveal sounds in a shared ancestor that no longer survive unchanged.

• Nostratic languagesNarrower topic: Proto-Nostratic is proposed as an ancestor above the established proto-languages.

• Language divergenceNarrower topic: The shared ancestor provides a baseline for identifying changes that accumulated after languages separated.

• Proto-Polynesian languageNarrower topic: Proto-Polynesian is one such inferred ancestor, not a directly recorded language.

• Kra–Dai languagesNarrower topic: The family’s early history depends on what comparative evidence can reconstruct confidently.

• Sun Language TheoryNarrower topic: Sun Language Theory made Turkish the proposed ancestor of all languages, far beyond ordinary family reconstruction.

• Lyle CampbellRelated: Reconstructing ancestral forms is one outcome of the historical methods Campbell studies.