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The hypothesized protolanguage from which all Kartvelian languages have descended, __________
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
the linguistic properties of the language’s descendants were used by experts to infer the properties of and reconstruct Proto-Kartvelian.
B
Proto-Kartvelian has been reconstructed by experts, who inferred the language’s linguistic properties from those of its descendants.
C
Proto-Kartvelian’s descendants’ linguistic properties were used by experts to infer the language’s properties and reconstruct it.
D
the experts who reconstructed Proto-Kartvelian inferred the language’s linguistic properties from those of its descendants.