"languageless" meaning in English

See languageless in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From language + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|language|less}} language + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} languageless (not comparable)
  1. Without language. Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: languagelessness
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          "ref": "1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2:",
          "text": "No languageless human society has ever been discovered on the earth.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 61:",
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