languageless

English

Etymology

From language +‎ -less.

Adjective

languageless (not comparable)

  1. Without language.
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2:
      No languageless human society has ever been discovered on the earth.
    • 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 61:
      But in practice, we are not born into any particular language at all: all babies are languageless at the start of life.

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