Amerind languages
Amerind languages Amerind is one of the three families in ... s controversial classification of all Native American languages, obtained by his mass lexical comparison method ... consider the method unreliable, and reject the Amerind family as unsupported, classifying these languages ...
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Talk:Amerind languages
Talk:Amerind languages re: support of Greenberg Not many specialists ... Please see my comment in Talk:Indigenous languages of the Americas#lumpers vs. splitters. Benwing ...
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Amerind
Amerind The word Amerind (a contraction of "American Indian") usually refers ... 1987 by linguist Joseph Greenberg for the Amerind languages, one of three proposed linguistic families in which he classified all Native American languages (the other two being Na-Dené ...
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Nostratic languages
Nostratic languages A schematic representation of one version of ... Africa are purported to descend. The Nostratic languages would thus constitute a linguistic super-family or high order grouping of languages. Proponents of the Nostratic theory have offered ... called Eurasiatic, which he linked to the Amerind languages of the Americas. The American Nostraticist ...
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Eurasiatic languages
Eurasiatic languages Eurasiatic is a hypothetical macro-family proposed ... hypothetical common ancestor of most of the languages of Europe and many of the languages of Asia. Uralic-Yukaghir associates Yukaghir, a ... dialects, with the large family of Uralic languages, which are divided into Samoyed and Finno ... Hungarian. Some of the well-known Finnic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and Saami (Lapp). ...
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Chibchan languages
Chibchan languages Chibchan languages (also Chíbchan, Chibchano) are a language family ... indicate that the original heart of Chibchan languages and Chibchan-speaking peoples may not have ... one finds the greatest diversity in Chibchan languages. The Costa Rican linguist Adolfo Constenla Umaña ... has created a detailed classification of Chibchan languages. Most of these fall into the ...
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Caucasian languages   (translated from Russian)
Caucasian languages Kavkaz , however we defined its boundaries, it remains the mountain of languages - place of very high lingual variety. In the region the languages of several well-known lingual families are ... But remains the mass of the radical languages, entering not one of them. These languages are called Caucasian languages. Is encountered ...
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Na-Dené languages
Na-Dené languages Pre-contact distribution of Na-Dené languages (in red) Na-Dené (also Na-Dene ... American language family which includes the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit. Family division The Na ... language: 1 speaker, (N. Barnes, 1996) Athabaskan languages Northern Pacific Coast Southern Navajo is the ... is a widely distributed group of Native languages and peoples spoken in Canada, Alaska, ...
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Eskimo-Aleut languages
Eskimo-Aleut languages Eskimo-Aleut languages spoken in Northern America Eskimo-Aleut is ... of Siberia. It consists of the Eskimo languages, known as Inuit in the north of ... is being referred to. Traditionally, the Eskimo languages family was divided into Inuit and Yup ... dialect continuum is but one of several languages of the Yup'ik group. However, ...
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Indigene American languages   (translated from German)
Indigene American languages Indigene American languages the languages of the inhabitants are Americas. They extend ... Language families as well as many isolated languages. Suggestions, to group this into superordinate families ... and South America. The language, or the languages, which used this first Migranten, is ...
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