List of proto-languages
Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location.
Africa
- Proto-Afroasiatic
- *Proto-Semitic
- *Proto-Cushitic
- *Proto-Berber
- *Proto-Chadic
- *Proto-Omotic
- Proto-Niger–Congo
- *Proto-Bantu
- *Proto-Mande
- *Proto-Yoruboid
Europe
- Proto-Basque
- Proto-Northwest Caucasian
- *Proto-Abazgi
- *Proto-Circassian
- Proto-Northeast Caucasian
- Proto-Indo-European
- *Proto-Albanian
- *Proto-Greek
- *Proto-Balto-Slavic
- **Proto-Baltic
- **Proto-Slavic
- *Proto-Celtic
- **Common Brittonic
- *Proto-Germanic
- **Proto-Norse
- *Proto-Italic
- **Proto-Romance
- ***Common Romanian
- Proto-Uralic
- *
- *Proto-Finnic
- *Proto-Samic
West Asia
Proto-AfroasiaticProto-Indo-European
Proto-Kartvelian
North and Central Asia
- Proto-Turkic
- Proto-Mongolic
- Proto-Tungusic
- Proto-Yeniseian
- Proto-Uralic
- *
- *Proto-Mordvinic
- *Proto-Permic
- *Proto-Mansi
- *Proto-Khanty
- *Proto-Samoyed
- Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan
- Proto-Indo-European
- *Proto-Tocharian
- *Proto-Indo-Iranian
- **Proto-Iranian
- Proto-Ainu
South Asia
- Proto-Dravidian
- *Proto-South Dravidian
- Proto-Indo-European
- *Proto-Indo-Iranian
- **Proto-Indo-Aryan
- ***Early Romani
- **Proto-Nuristani
Asian Pacific Rim
- Proto-Australian
- *Proto-Pama–Nyungan
- **Proto-Arandic
- **Proto-Thura-Yura
- Proto-Trans–New Guinea
- Proto-Austronesian
- *Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- **Proto-Malayic
- **Proto-Philippine
- **Proto-Oceanic
- ***Proto-Central Pacific language
- ****Proto-Polynesian
- ***Proto-Admiralty Islands
- ***Proto-Temotu language
- ***Proto-Micronesian language
- ***Proto-Torres–Banks language
- Proto-Koreanic
- Proto-Japonic
- Proto-Kra–Dai
- *Proto-Kra
- *Proto-Kam–Sui
- *Proto-Tai
- *Proto-Hlai
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- *Proto-Sinitic
- **Proto-Min
- *Proto-Tibeto-Burman
- **Proto-Loloish
- **Proto-Karenic
- Proto-Hmong–Mien
- *Proto-Hmongic
- *Proto-Mienic
- Proto-Austroasiatic
- *Proto-Aslian
- *Proto-Khmeric
- *Proto-Palaungic
- *Proto-Viet-Muong
- *Proto-Munda
Americas
- Proto-Eskaleut language
- *Proto-Eskimo
- **Proto-Inuit
- Proto-Algic
- *Proto-Algonquian
- Proto-Muskogean
- Proto-Iroquoian
- Proto-Uto-Aztecan
- *Proto-Nahuan
- Proto-Mayan
- Proto-Mixe–Zoquean language
- Proto-Tanoan language
- Proto-Totonacan language
- Proto-Na-Dene
- *Proto-Athabaskan
- *
- *
- **
- Proto-Tupian
- Proto-Tsimshian
- Proto-Salish
- Proto-Siouan