List of proto-languages
Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location.
Africa[]
- Proto-Afroasiatic
- Proto-Semitic
- Proto-Cushitic
- Proto-Berber
- Proto-Niger–Congo
- Proto-Bantu
Europe, Near East, and Caucasus[]
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- Proto-Northwest Caucasian
- Proto-Abazgi
- Proto-Circassian
- Proto-Kartvelian
- Proto-Georgian-Zan
- Proto-Northwest Caucasian
- Proto-Basque
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Anatolian
- Proto-Albanian
- Proto-Greek
- Proto-Armenian
- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Proto-Indo-Aryan
- Proto-Iranian
- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Baltic
- Proto-Slavic
- Proto-Celtic
- Proto-Germanic
- Proto-Norse
- Proto-Italic
- Proto-Romance
North Asia[]
- Proto-Altaic
- Proto-Turkic
- Proto-Mongolic
- Proto-Tungusic
- Proto-Koreanic
- Proto-Japonic
- Proto-Uralic
- Proto-Finno-Ugric
- Proto-Finnic (Proto-Balto-Finnic)
- Proto-Samic
- Proto-Samoyed
- Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Tocharian
South Asia[]
- Proto-Dravidian
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Proto-Indo-Aryan
- Proto-Indo-Iranian
Pacific Rim[]
- Proto-Pama–Nyungan
- Proto-Arandic
- Proto-Thura-Yura
- Proto-Trans–New Guinea (list)
- Proto-Austronesian (list)
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Proto-Philippine
- Proto-Oceanic
- Proto-Polynesian
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Proto-Kra–Dai
- Proto-Kra (list)
- Proto-Kam–Sui (list)
- Proto-Tai (list)
- Proto-Hlai (list)
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- Proto-Hmong–Mien (list)
- Proto-Austroasiatic
Americas[]
- Proto-Eskimo–Aleut
- Proto-Eskimo
- Proto-Algic
- Proto-Algonquian
- Proto-Iroquoian
- Proto-Uto-Aztecan
- Proto-Nahuan
- Proto-Mayan
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- Proto-Athabaskan
- Proto-Oto-Manguean
- Proto-Mixtecan
- Proto-Tupian
- Proto-Macro-Jê
- Proto-Arawakan
Macrofamily reconstructions[]
These are hypothetical proto-languages that cannot be substantiated using the scientific methods of comparative linguistics.
- Proto-Eurasiatic
- Proto-Nostratic
- Proto-Vasconic
- Proto-Human language
- (The Tower of Babel language)
Categories:
- Proto-languages
- Historical linguistics
- Lists of languages