languagelessadj.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 256 Hees growne a very land-fish languagelesse, a monster. View more context for this quotation

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vii. v. 207 They understand me not, poor languageless savages.

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 28 Toolless, houseless, languageless, except for a few guttural sounds.

1918 J. Jastrow Psychol. of Conviction vi. 179 Such children, in almost as languageless a condition as a dog,..develop into rational creatures of just that special kind of rationality that, even in its simplest terms, the brightest dog never achieves or approaches.

1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct ii. 26 No mute tribe has ever been discovered, and there is no record that a region has served as a ‘cradle’ of language from which it spread to previously languageless groups.