List of proto-languages

Below is a list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location.

Macrofamily reconstructions

• Proto-Human language
• Proto-Dené–Caucasian language
• Nostratic

Africa

• Proto-Afroasiatic language
  • Proto-Semitic language
  • Proto-Berber language
• Proto-Bantu language

Near East

• Proto-Anatolian language
• Proto-Northwest Caucasian language
  • Proto-Abazgi language
  • Proto-Circassian language
• Proto-Kartvelian language
• Proto-Semitic language

Eurasia

• Proto-Basque language
• Proto-Dravidian language
• Proto-Indo-European language
  • Proto-Greek language
  • Proto-Armenian language
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian language
    • Proto-Iranian language
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic language
    • Proto-Baltic language
    • Proto-Slavic language
  • Proto-Celtic language
  • Proto-Germanic language
    • Proto-Norse language
  • Latin (attested)
    • Proto-Romance language

North Asia

• Proto-Turkic language
• Proto-Mongolic language
• Proto-Uralic language
  • Proto-Finnic language
  • Proto-Samic language
  • Proto-Samoyed language
• Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan language

Pacific Rim

• Proto-Pama–Nyungan language

• Proto-Austronesian language
  • Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
    • Proto-Oceanic language
      • Proto-Polynesian language

• Proto-Tai–Kadai language
  • Proto-Northern Tai–Kadai language
    • Proto-Kra language
    • Proto-Kam–Sui language
  • Proto-Southern Tai–Kadai language
    • Proto-Tai language
    • Proto-Hlai language

• Proto-Tibeto-Burman language
  • Proto-Loloish language
• Proto-Hmong–Mien language
• Proto-Mon–Khmer language

Americas

• Proto-Eskimo–Aleut language
  • Proto-Eskimo language
• Proto-Algonquian language
• Proto-Iroquoian language
• Proto-Uto-Aztecan language
  • Proto-Nahuan language
• Proto-Mayan language
• Proto-Oto-Manguean language