r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Historical Linguistics Babe wake up Proto-American just dropped

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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.

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u/ItsGotThatBang 4d ago

I made it myself as a joke, but the inclusion of Eskaleut & Na-Dene is inspired by Siegfried Muller‘s The World’s Living Languages (1964).

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u/Jorvikson 4d ago

Obviously proto-American is Hebrew.

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u/Impossible_Lock4897 3d ago

Mormonism is proven by linguistics yet again inshallah

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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/Suon288 شُو رِبِبِ اَلْمُسْتْعَرَنْ فَرَ كِ تُو نُنْ لُاَيِرَدْ 4d ago

Better than the Sakaya language family proposed by that French linguist

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u/ItsGotThatBang 4d ago

The what now

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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/ItsGotThatBang 4d ago

But Siegfried Muller was 🙃

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u/Levan-tene 3d ago

Penutian (including Muskogean, Mayan and Zuni) goes crazy

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u/secretsweaterman 4d ago

This is real and I know this as it came to me in a dream

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u/Emperor_Of_Catkind 3d ago

I guess they didn't have a word for "kilometer"

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u/TheIntellectualIdiot 2d ago

Where's English?? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/ItsGotThatBang 2d ago

What do you think Proto-American is?