Trümmersprache

German

Etymology

Trümmer (debris) +‎ Sprache (language)

Noun

Trümmersprache f (genitive Trümmersprache, plural Trümmersprachen)

  1. (linguistics) An extinct language which is attested only in a very small corpus and whose structure is therefore widely unreconstructable; examples include Pictish, Hunnic, and Crimean Gothic

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