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• Eurasiatic languages — Eurasiatic is a hypothetical macro family proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America. The branches of EurasiaticAs laid out by Greenberg (2000:279 81), the branches of Eurasiatic …   Wikipedia



• Nostratic languages — Nostratic (controversial) Geographic distribution: Europe, Asia except for the southeast, North and Northeast Africa, the Arctic Linguistic classification: Borean (?) …   Wikipedia

• Classification of the Japanese language — The immediate classification of the Japanese language is clear: it is a Japonic language, along with the Ryukyuan languages. Traditionally, these are considered dialects of a single language isolate. However, more distant connections remain… …   Wikipedia

• Classification of Japonic — The classification of the Japonic languages (Japanese and Ryukyuan) is unclear. The group is traditionally considered to consist of dialects of a single language isolate. The possibility of a genetic relationship to the Goguryeo (Koguryŏ)… …   Wikipedia

• Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages — Chukotko Kamchatkan Chukchi–Kamchatkan, Luorawetlan Geographic distribution: Russian Far East Linguistic classification: Chukotko Kamchatkan Proto language: Proto Chukotko Kamchatkan …   Wikipedia

• Mass comparison — is a method developed by Joseph Greenberg to determine the level of genetic relatedness between languages. It is now usually called multilateral comparison. The method is generally rejected by linguists (Campbell 2001, p. 45), though it has… …   Wikipedia

• Proto-Uralic language — Proto Uralic is the hypothetical language ancestral to the Uralic language family, which includes Finno Ugric and Samoyedic. The language was originally spoken in a small area in about 4000 BCE, and expanded to give differentiated protolanguages …   Wikipedia

• Afroasiatic Urheimat — The term Afroasiatic Urheimat refers to the place where Proto Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.… …   Wikipedia

• Joseph Greenberg — Infobox Scientist name = Joseph Greenberg birth date = May 28, 1915 birth place = Brooklyn, New York death date = May 7, 2001 death place = Stanford, California residence = citizenship = nationality = American ethnicity = field = linguistics,… …   Wikipedia

• Indo-Uralic languages — Indo Uralic is a hypothetical language family consisting of Indo European and Uralic. A genetic relationship between Indo European and Uralic was first proposed by the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1869 but was received with little… …   Wikipedia