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    Eurasiatic is a hypothetical and controversial language macrofamily proposal that would include many language families historically spoken in northern...
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    Yukaghir, sometimes classed as "Paleosiberian" languages, to the Eurasiatic family. While the Eurasiatic hypothesis has been well received by Nostraticists...
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    comprising Sumerian, Elamitic, and some other extinct languages of the ancient Near East, Eurasiatic (a proposal of Joseph Greenberg that includes Indo-European...
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    Language (book) Indo-European copula Indo-European sound laws Indo-European studies Indo-Semitic languages Indo-Uralic languages Eurasiatic languages...
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    accepted hypothesis.[citation needed] Some linguists take an agnostic view. Eurasiatic, a similar grouping, was proposed by Joseph Greenberg (2000) and endorsed...
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    which is what the Eurasiatic hypothesis provides. In the 1960s Morris Swadesh suggested a connection with the Wakashan languages. This was expanded by...
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    languages Indo-Uralic languages Sino-Uralic languages Eurasiatic languages Nostratic languages Pan-Turanism According to Manaster Ramer & Sidwell, this...
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  • languages of coastal British Columbia. The Nivkh languages are included in the widely rejected Eurasiatic languages hypothesis by Joseph Greenberg. An automated...
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  • Joseph Greenberg (category Linguists of Eurasiatic languages)
    Vajda related Yeniseian to the Na-Dené languages of North America as a Dené–Yeniseian family. The Eurasiatic grouping resembles the older Nostratic groupings...
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  • Siberia portal Indigenous peoples of Siberia Paleosiberian languages Eurasiatic languages Demographics of Russia First All Union Census of the Soviet...
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  • Russian name for indigenous languages of Siberia Uralo-Siberian languages Eurasiatic languages Dene-Yeniseian languages Campbell, Lyle; Mixco, Mauricio...
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    Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik; by some called Uralian languages /jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən) form a language family of 42 languages spoken...
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    Eskimo–Uralic languages Eurasiatic languages Indo-Uralic languages Nostratic languages Ural–Altaic languages Uralic–Yukaghir languages Chukotko-Kamchatkan–Amuric...
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    18:216-231. Eurasiatic languages Indo-Semitic languages Laryngeal theory Nostratic languages Ural–Altaic languages Uralic–Yukaghir languages Uralo-Siberian...
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    Merritt Ruhlen (category Linguists of Eurasiatic languages)
    universally recognized existence of a language family as old as Afroasiatic, not to mention the even older Eurasiatic (whose existence remains controversial)...
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  • Ainu remains a language isolate. Linguistic reconstruction Comparison of Japanese and Korean Eurasiatic languages Nostratic languages Francis-Ratte, Alexander...
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  • Joseph H. 2000–2002. Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family. Volume 1: Grammar. Volume 2: Lexicon. Stanford: Stanford...
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    and Mongolic languages were found to be converging rather than diverging over the centuries. The relationship between the Altaic languages is now generally...
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    regarded "Korean–Japanese-Ainu" as forming a branch of his proposed Eurasiatic language family. Greenberg did not hold Korean–Japanese–Ainu to have an especially...
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    Among the better-known Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. Yukaghir is a small family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia. It formerly...
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    Tartary Kalmyks Kazakhs Kyrgyz Karakalpaks Yörüks Dzungar Khanate Eurasiatic languages Inner Asia Nomadic empire Steppe Route Lev Gumilyov Scytho-Siberian...
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    Uralic, Altaic, Japanese, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut (languages which are classed as Eurasiatic by the followers of Sergei Starostin and those of Joseph...
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    is the last surviving Paleo-European language spoken indigenously in Europe, predating the Indo-European languages of the Bronze Age invasion of Europe...
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  • Stefan Georg (category Linguists of Yeniseian languages)
    (2005). "Review of Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic language family". Diachronica. 2 (22:1): 184–191. doi:10.1075/dia.22.1.09geo...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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    Proto-Indo-European homeland (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    imposition of a Eurasiatic language – to use Greenberg's term – on a population speaking one or more primordial Northwest Caucasian languages." Anthony states...
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  • proto-languages that cannot be substantiated using the scientific methods of comparative linguistics. Proto-Altaic Proto-Boreal [ru] Proto-Eurasiatic Proto-Ural-Altaic...
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  • access prehistorical languages through series of reconstructions of proto-languages. Saussure's solution to the problem of language evolution involves dividing...
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    Proto-Afroasiatic homeland (category Afroasiatic languages)
    distinct languages. Afroasiatic languages are today mostly distributed in parts of Africa, and Western Asia. The contemporary Afroasiatic languages are spoken...
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    Indo-European migrations (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    imposition of a Eurasiatic language – to use Greenberg's term – on a population speaking one or more primordial Northwest Caucasian languages." Anthony states...
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