Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement. A retrospective label, the musicians involved...
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Language family (section Proto-languages)
of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a metaphor borrowed from biology...
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Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which...
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Altaic languages (redirect from Proto-Altaic language)
specifically developed for each of the languages—Proto-Turkic, Proto-Mongolic, Proto-Tungusic, Middle Korean and Proto-Japonic— indicated support for the Altaic...
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The Proto-Uralic homeland is the earliest location in which the Proto-Uralic language was spoken, before its speakers dispersed geographically causing...
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Arawakan languages (redirect from Proto-Arawak language)
languages, and can therefore be reconstructed for Proto-Arawakan. The table below shows the likely forms of Proto-Arawakan: The Arawak word for maize is marisi...
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Indo-Uralic languages (category Articles containing Proto-Indo-European-language text)
the original Indo-Uralic speakers lived north of the Caspian Sea, and the Proto-Indo-European speakers began as a group that branched off westward from...
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Early Slavs (redirect from Proto-Slavs)
ancient Roman writers referred to the ancestors of Slavs as Venedi. The proto-Slavic term Slav shares roots with Slavic terms for speech, word , and perhaps...
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characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology). Without proper...
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Proto-Iroquoian is the theoretical proto-language of the Iroquoian languages. Lounsbury (1961) estimated from glottochronology a time depth of 3,500 to...
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Eurasiatic languages (redirect from Proto-Eurasiatic)
reconstructions, that proto-words are unreliable or inaccurate, or that apparent phonetic similarities among them reflect chance sound resemblances." On...
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Uralo-Siberian languages (redirect from Proto-Uralo-Siberian)
reconstructed to Proto-Uralo-Siberian, along with their reflexes in Proto-Uralic, Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan (sometimes Proto-Chukchi), and Proto-Eskaleut (sometimes...
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Origin of language (redirect from Proto-language (glottogony))
Some scholars assume the development of primitive language-like systems (proto-language) as early as Homo habilis, while others place the development of...
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the German linguist Otto Dempwolff. It included a reconstruction of the Proto-Austronesian lexicon. The term Austronesian was coined (as German austronesisch)...
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Techno (redirect from Proto-techno)
(1981), Moroder’s "From Here to Eternity" (1977), and Manuel Göttsching's "proto-techno masterpiece" E2-E4 (1981). The Eurodisco song I Feel Love, produced...
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Volume 1: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Tocharian. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society. ISBN 0940490803. Ringe, Don (2006). From Proto-Indo-European...
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Nadir's Big Chance is the fifth solo album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1975. It was recorded shortly after a decision to re-form...
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Borean languages (redirect from Proto-Borean)
Shomarka O.Y. Keita – "The Early Dispersions of Homo Sapiens sapiens and proto-Human from Africa." in Mother Tongue, issue XVIII, p. 143–188, 2013, where...
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changes from the proto-language to known modern languages, and regular sound changes from Proto-Ural–Altaic to give Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic words should...
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Kerry Livgren (section Proto-Kaw: 2003–2011)
called AD, and pursued a solo career. Livgren later formed a band called Proto-Kaw, which released new material until 2011. As the primary songwriter for...
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Indo-Aryan migrations (redirect from Proto-Indo-Aryans)
plateau by the Iranians, who were closely related to the Indo-Aryans. The Proto-Indo-Iranian culture, which gave rise to the Indo-Aryans and Iranians, developed...
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innovations shared with West Germanic: The retraction of Proto-Germanic ē (/ɛː/, also written ǣ) to ā. Proto-Germanic *jērą 'year' > Northwest Germanic *jārą...
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Guajiboan languages (redirect from Proto-Guajiboan)
due to mutual lexical borrowing, genetic inheritance, or chance resemblances. Below are Proto-Guahiban reconstructions by Christian and Matteson (1972):...
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cannot be dismissed as chance similarities, then it must be assumed that they descend from a single parent language called the 'proto-language'. A sequence...
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Chitimacha, Cuitlatec, Haida, Kutenai, Proto-Caddoan, Proto-Chimakuan, Proto-Comecrudan, Proto-Iroquoian, Proto-Muskogean, Proto-Siouan-Catawba, Tonkawa, Waikuri...
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Rune (category Articles containing Proto-Germanic-language text)
a wide variety of ways in modern popular culture. The name stems from a Proto-Germanic form reconstructed as *rūnō, which may be translated as 'secret...
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Protofeminism (redirect from Proto-feminist)
wing, the Viceroy, the Marquis de Mancera, provided Sor Juana with the chance to prove her intelligence. She exceeded all expectations, and legitimized...
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music on Chance of Rain as proto-absolute and post-ambient. All tracks are written by Laurel Halo Credits adapted from liner notes of Chance of Rain....
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accompanied by Shaw. David wakes the Engineer from stasis and speaks to him in Proto-Indo-European to try to explain what Weyland wants. The Engineer responds...
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History of evolutionary thought (redirect from Proto-evolutionary)
rejected the view of Empedocles that living creatures might have originated by chance. Other Greek philosophers, such as Zeno of Citiumm the founder of the Stoic...
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