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Title: What is the difference between a protolanguage and a daughter language? Post by: Levi Gardner on Feb 7, 2022 Just need help answering the question above.
Title: Re: What is the difference between a protolanguage and a daughter language? Post by: habiba on Feb 8, 2022 A protolanguage is a parent language for many ancient and modern languages.
In historical linguistics, a daughter language is a language descended from another language through a process of genetic descent. Strictly speaking, the metaphor of the mother-daughter relationship can lead to misconceptualization of language history, as daughter languages are normally direct continuations of earlier stages, not separate entities in any way "born" to a parent who eventually dies. For example:
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