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protospeech

protospeech noun: simple utterances that might eventually develop into systematic speech.

Noun

protospeech (uncountable)

  1. Simple utterances that might eventually develop into systematic speech.

Origin of protospeech

From proto- + speech.

Questions about protospeech

What does protospeech mean?
Protospeech means simple utterances that might eventually develop into systematic speech.
What part of speech is protospeech?
Protospeech is a noun.

Words near protospeech in the dictionary

  1. protospacer
  2. protospacers
  3. protospatharios
  4. protospatharius
  5. protospecies
  6. protospeech
  7. protosphere
  8. protospheres
  9. protospine
  10. protospines
  11. protosplice

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