Present distribution of proposed Amerind languages
Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen.[1][2][3][4] Greenberg proposed that all of the indigenous languages of the Americas belong to one of three language families, the previously established Eskimo–Aleut and Na–Dene, and with everything else—otherwise classified by specialists as belonging to dozens of independent families—as Amerind. Due to a large number of methodological flaws in the 1987 book Language in the Americas, the relationships he proposed between these languages have been rejected by the majority of historical linguists as spurious.[citation needed]
The term Amerind is also occasionally used to refer broadly to the various indigenous languages of the Americas without necessarily implying that they are a genealogical group. To avoid ambiguity, the term Amerindian is often used for the latter meaning.
languages. In elaborating his classification of the Amerindlanguages, Greenberg relied heavily on Sapir's early work on the North American languages...
Americas See: Native American name controversy Amerindlanguages, a hypothetical higher-language family Amerind Foundation, a non-profit, museum and archaeological...
some or all of these languages to each other, with varying degrees of success. The most widely reported is Joseph Greenberg's Amerind hypothesis, which,...
hypothesis, Amerindlanguage family, in 1987 in one of his major books, Language in the Americas. According to the Amerind hypothesis, all of the languages of...
that all the other Native American languages belong to a single language macro-family, which he termed Amerind. Language in the Americas has generated lively...
Spanish are the only Ibero-Romance languages, and perhaps the only Romance languages with such thriving inter-language forms, in which visible and lively...
that the various languages spoken in Eurasia and adjacent regions have a genealogical relationship, and ultimately descend from languages spoken during the...
to Greenberg, the language family that Eurasiatic is most closely connected to is Amerind. He states that "the Eurasiatic-Amerind family represents a...
Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes...
placed the language in at least four language families including Panoan, Tupian, Macro-Tucanoan, and Amerind. However, the proposed language families share...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. In Joseph Greenberg's Amerind hypothesis, Kaqchikel is classified as a member of the Penutian stock,...
that it is related to the Pano-Tacanan languages. Joseph Greenberg classifies Selk'nam as an Amerindlanguage of the Southern Andean group, but this categorization...
access prehistorical languages through series of reconstructions of proto-languages. Saussure's solution to the problem of language evolution involves dividing...
Indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas, where there are also 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States alone. Several of these languages are...
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between five California language families: Maiduan languages Miwok Costanoan languages Wintuan languages Yokutsan languages That original proposal has...
About 600 indigenous languages are known from South America, Central America, and the Antilles (see List of indigenous languages of South America), although...
derived from an Australo-Melanesian population, as opposed to the main Amerind peopling of the Americas of Siberian (admixed Ancient North Eurasian and...
explanation for language isolates is that they developed in isolation from other languages. This explanation mostly applies to sign languages that have arisen...
Inupiat, and Aleut (i.e., the groups whose traditional languages are Eskimo–Aleut languages). Related groups among these tribal peoples are referred...
2007). An Amerind Etymological Dictionary. "Tzeltal". Catholic News Service. "In Chiapas, Mayans get Mass, sacraments in two of their languages". Catholic...
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