KnowraProto-languageLinked fromLinked fromThe 27 pages that link to Proto-language, each with the reason it gives.All 27Broader topic 2Related 10Narrower topic 15LanguageRelated: 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.Comparative linguisticsRelated: Comparative analysis uses correspondences to infer unattested ancestral forms.Grimm's lawRelated: Proto-Indo-European consonants are inferred rather than directly attested.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.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.Lyle CampbellRelated: Reconstructing ancestral forms is one outcome of the historical methods Campbell studies.