protolang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A constructed ancestor language from which other naturalistic conlangs are descended (actually or retroactively).
noun
Example Sentences
- "I created a protolang (consisting mainly of phonology and inflections) to ensure realistic mutations."
- "Then at one point I wanted to add head-marking to the language to mark tenses. In my initial sketch, this head-marking would have features of a "real" verb, a kind of calcified form from an ancestral verb in the protolang, kinda like how English uses "was" to mark past tense ("I was going to the market", "I was reading yeserday")."
Etymology
From proto- + -lang.
Inflected Forms
protolangs (plural)