Ursprache: Meaning and Definition of

Ur•spra•che

Pronunciation: (oor'shprä"khu Ger. &oomacrr'shprä"khu), [key]
— n.
  1. a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
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