Ursprache

//ˈʊəspɹɑːkə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A proto-language.

    "I had lost him. He might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood."

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proto languageproto-language

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"I had lost him. He might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Ursprache.

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