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The indigenous languages of the Americas form various linguistic areas or Sprachbunds that share various common (areal) traits.

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Linguistic areas of the Americas

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languages of the Americas often can be grouped together into linguistic areas or Sprachbunds (also known as convergence areas). The linguistic areas identified...

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Sprachbund

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the Gilaki and Mazandarani languages with South Caucasian languages several linguistic areas of the Americas, including: Mesoamerican linguistic area...

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Pueblo linguistic area

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Tanoan languages may be due to contact with Zuni and Keresan." Linguistic areas of the Americas Puebloans Mithun 1999, p. 318. sfn error: no target: CITEREFMithun1999...

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Chaco linguistic area

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Boróro Linguistic areas of the Americas Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area Macro-Warpean languages Moseten–Chonan languages Indigenous languages of South America...

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Indigenous languages of the Americas

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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

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Mesoamerican language area

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rather than inheritance, the standard criteria for defining a sprachbund. In their 1986 paper "Meso-America as a Linguistic Area" the above authors explored...

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Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are groups of people native to a specific region that inhabited the Americas before the arrival of European settlers...

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Linguistic relativity

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The idea of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF), the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is...

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Americas

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The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the...

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Linguistics

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grammatical, the paleographical, and the structural. Traditional areas of linguistic analysis correspond to syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences)...

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Peopling of the Americas

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The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the...

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Linguistics and the Book of Mormon

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peoples of the Americas can be compared to claims from the Book of Mormon; secondly, linguistic analysis of the book itself can be employed by either the book’s...

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Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area

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The Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and...

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Indigenous languages of South America

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The indigenous languages of South America are those whose origin dates back to the pre-Columbian era. The subcontinent has great linguistic diversity...

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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time

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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time is a 1992 book by linguist Johanna Nichols. It is her best-known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology...

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Linguistic universal

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has consonants and vowels. Research in this area of linguistics is closely tied to the study of linguistic typology, and intends to reveal generalizations...

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Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

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study of the indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. SSILA has an annual winter meeting held in association with the Linguistic Society...

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Linguistic categories

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gender, etc. The definition of linguistic categories is a major concern of linguistic theory, and thus, the definition and naming of categories varies...

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Language family

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shown by the linguistic tree and the genetic tree of human ancestry that was verified statistically. Languages interpreted in terms of the putative phylogenetic...

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Linguistic anthropology

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Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the...

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Linguistic discrimination

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Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people which is based on their use of language and...

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Language

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Southeast Asia (including Thai). The areas of the world in which there is the greatest linguistic diversity, such as the Americas, Papua New Guinea, West Africa...

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Balkan sprachbund

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Universității “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 1999. Thomason, Sarah G. (1999). "Linguistic areas and language history" (PDF). Sarah G. Thomason, Language Contact: An...

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Linguistic homeland

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(in the case of historical or near-historical migrations) or it may be very uncertain (in the case of deep prehistory). Next to internal linguistic evidence...

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Linguistic landscape

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The linguistic landscape refers to the "visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region". Linguistic...

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