Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family, Volume 2, LexiconStanford University Press, 22.04.2002 - 216 Seiten The basic thesis of this two-volume work (Volume I. Grammar was published in 2000) is that the well known and extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from Europe across northern Asia to North America. Eurasiatic is seen to consist of Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungus-Manchu), Japanese-Korean-Ainu (possibly a distinct subgroup of Eurasiatic), Gilyak, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut. The author asserts that the evidence presented in the two volumes for the validity of Eurasiatic as a single linguistic family confirms his hypothesis since the numerous and interlocking resemblances he finds among the various subgroups can only reasonably be explained by descent from a common ancestor. The present volume provides lexical evidence for the validity of Eurasiatic as a linguistic stock. Since some of the relevant etymological material has already been published in the work of some Nostraticists, this volume emphasizes those etymologies involving Ainu, Gilyak, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut, languages generally omitted from Nostratic studies. The Eurasiatic family is itself most closely related to the Amerind family, with which it shares numerous roots. The Eurasiatic-Amerind family represents a relatively recent expansion (circa 15,000 BP) into territory opened up by the melting of the Arctic ice cap. Eurasiatic-Amerind stands apart from the other families of the Old World, among which the differences are much greater and represent deeper chronological groupings. The volume includes a classification of Eurasiatic languages, references cited, and semantic and phonetic indexes. |
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AINU Albanian Aleut Aliutor ALTAIC Alutiiq Amur Armenian Avestan Azerbaijani bark become Bogoras breast Canadian Inuit Central Alaskan Yupik Central Siberian Yupik Cheremis Chukchi CHUKOTIAN Chuvash Dagur dialect 9 Dobrotvorskij Enets Eskimo ESKIMO-ALEUT Estonian Eurasiatic Evenki Finnish GILYAK Glehn golian Gothic Greek Greenlandic Hattori Hittite Hungarian Illich-Svitych Indo-European Kalmyk Kamassian Kamchadal Khalkha Kolyma Komi-Zyrian Koryak Latin Latvian lian Lithuanian Manchu MIDDLE KOREAN Middle Mongolian modern Japanese modern Korean Monguor Mordvin mouth Nanai Naukan Negidal North Alaskan Inuit Old Church Slavic Old English Old High German Old Irish OLD JAPANESE Old Norse Old Prussian Old Turkic Orok Ostyak plait Poppe Proto PROTO-ALTAIC PROTO-CHUKOTIAN Proto-Eskimo Proto-Finno-Ugric PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN Proto-Inuit Proto-Samoyed Proto-Tungus Proto-Turkic PROTO-URALIC Proto-Yupik Radliński Räsänen river root Ryukyuan Saami Samoyed Sanskrit Selkup Sirenik skin snow Southern Kamchadal Tatar Tavgy Tocharian Tsintsius Tungus Turkish Turkmen Udmurt Ulch URALIC Vogul weather Written Mongolian Yakut YUKAGHIR Yurak Tundra
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Seite 2 - BP) into territory opened up by the melting of the Arctic ice cap. Eurasiatic-Amerind stands apart from the other families of the Old World, among which the differences are much greater and represent deeper chronological groupings.