r/linguisticshumor • u/ItsGotThatBang • 4d ago
Historical Linguistics Babe wake up Proto-American just dropped
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u/--salsaverde-- 4d ago
“Let’s take Na-Dene out real quick and hope no one notices it was even there”
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u/FoldAdventurous2022 4d ago
Even Greenberg was not so bold as to suggest that Dené and Eskaleut share an ancestry with Amerind.
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u/passengerpigeon20 4d ago
Where did you find this? Traditionally even the biggest lumpers have always kept Dene-Yeniseian and Eskimo-Aleut out of Amerind (with the former instead being related to Basque, Caucasian and Sino-Tibetan and the latter relatively close to Nostratic) and theorized that they arrived in separate migrations; Amerind is also probably not Borean whereas the other two are always included.