Proto-Human language
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The Proto-Human language, also known as Proto-Sapiens or Proto-World, is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages.[1]
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Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World | |
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Reconstruction of | All extant and extinct human languages |
Era | Paleolithic |
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The concept is speculative and not amenable to analysis in historical linguistics. It presupposes a monogenetic origin of language, i.e. the derivation of all natural languages from a single origin, presumably at some time in the Middle Paleolithic period. As the predecessor of all extant languages spoken by modern humans (Homo sapiens), Proto-Human as hypothesised would not necessarily be ancestral to any hypothetical Neanderthal language.