| 单词 | parent language |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparent language parent language n. Linguistics a language from which certain other languages are derived. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages > antecedent or parent language mother tongue1642 mother language1669 parent language1779 ancestor1822 Ursprache1908 proto-language1929 pre-language1961 1779 H. Cowley Who's the Dupe? ii. iii. sig. I5v Ton! What may that be? It cannot be Orthology: I don't recollect its root in the Parent languages. 1877 W. Matthews Ethnogr. & Philol. Hidatsa Indians 75 The language of the Minnetarees has been classified as belonging to..the Dakota group..not because there is any evidence that the present Dakota tongue is the parent language of the group [etc.]. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xviii. 298 In the case of the Romance languages, we have written records of this parent language, namely, Latin. 1992 Word 43 i. 77 Though Semitic is traditionally assumed to have had six laryngeals, the Afroasiatic parent language most likely had only four. < as lemmas |
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