Proto-Romance language

Proto-Romance
Reconstruction ofRomance languages
RegionRoman Empire
Reconstructed
ancestors
Proto-Indo-European
  • Proto-Italic
Lower-order reconstructions
  • Common Romanian
  • Proto-Italo-Western Romance

Proto-Romance is the result of applying the comparative method to reconstruct the latest common ancestor of the Romance languages. To what extent, if any, such a reconstruction reflects a real état de langue is controversial. The closest real-life counterpart would have been a late variety of Latin.

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