Editing Proto-Human language (section)

==Terminology==
The concept has no generally accepted term. Most treatments of the subject do not include a name for the language under consideration (e.g., Bengtson and Ruhlen<ref name="bengtson-ruhlen-1994">{{cite book |author1=Meritt Ruhlen |author2=John Bengtson |title=On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy |date=1994 |pages=277–336 |url=http://www.cecuritec.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Global.pdf |access-date=2020-06-27 |language=en |chapter=Global etymologies}}</ref>). The terms ''Proto-World'' and ''Proto-Human''<ref>{{cite web |author-link=Harold C. Fleming |first=Harold |last=Fleming |url=http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/MTLR-34b.htm |date=2003 |title=(Mother Tongue) Long Ranger 34 (b) |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040502180220/http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu:80/~witzel/MTLR-34b.htm |archivedate=2004-05-02 }}</ref><ref>Used by [[John Bengtson]] (2007).</ref> are in occasional use. [[Merritt Ruhlen]] used the term ''Proto-Sapiens''.{{fact|date=May 2025}}