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.

Derived terms

• languagelessness