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	Merritt Ruhlen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ruhlen, M. (2005) Taxonomy, typology, and historical linguistics.
		Ruhlen, M. The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue.
		Ruhlen, M. (1992) An Overview of Genetic Classification.
	www.isrl.uiuc.edu /~amag/langev/author/mruhlen.html (60 words)

	Center for the Study of the First Americans
		Ruhlen told the Mammoth Trumpet that until quite recently both the Yeniseian and Na-Dene language families were believed to be families with no known relatives.
		Ruhlen now thinks he can show that of all the world's language families the Yeniseian and Na-Dene families are most closely related to each other.
		Ruhlen also finds it compelling that the Na-Dene and Yeniseian families share at least two words that mean boat, and that both were maritime peoples.
	www.centerfirstamericans.com /mt.php?a=6 (1119 words)

	Amazon.de: The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue: English Books: Merritt Ruhlen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I was so inspired by Ruhlen's do-it-yourself tutorial approach to language comparison that I decided to try it myself and "fly solo." Since all we have of Etruscan is a 200-word vocabulary (400 max), I appointed myself an instant expert and tried to find out which of Ruhlen's language families Etruscan relates to the best.
		Ruhlen and Greenberg are pioneers about the origin of language as Darwin was about the origin of species.
		I think that to improve the linguistic research, Ruhlen could introduce a mathematic analysis to measure the divergence among languages and from those to reconstruct his genealogical tree of human beings, as is done with genetic research.
	www.amazon.de /Origin-Language-Tracing-Evolution-Mother/dp/0471584266 (1456 words)

	Language Log: Can relationships between languages be determined after 80,000 years?
		Almost to a man, historical linguists assume that the attempts by Ruhlen and the late Joseph Greenberg proposing that languages of great antiquity retain traces of their origins in single ancestral languages are...
		Almost to a man, historical linguists assume that the attempts by Ruhlen and the late Joseph Greenberg proposing that languages of great antiquity retain traces of their origins in single ancestral languages are irresponsible.
		Ruhlen and some associates have published a paper in a place so obscure they might as well have scratched it on a cocktail napkin somewhere.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001037.html (820 words)

	Evolution of Human Languages
		Merritt's work is currently focused on creating top-level databases for all the world's language families.
		A particular aspect of Merritt's work is reseach (in collaboration with Paul Whitehouse, Timothy Usher, and William S-Y. Wang) on the Kusunda language of Nepal.
		Merritt is also working on a paper with the same three authors of the Kusunda paper that attempts to find linguistic traces of the first out-of-Africa migration.
	ehl.santafe.edu /ruhlen.htm (550 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue: Books: Merritt Ruhlen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ruhlen (A Guide to the World's Languages, Stanford Univ. Pr., 1987) is a leader in the new attempt to write a unified theory of language development and diffusion.
		Ruhlen explains the relationship among genetics, archaeology, and linguistic classification as an important new development in the study of prehistory and discusses the questions of the dating of early settlements in the Americas and Europe and the Banty Expansion.
		Ruhlen has topnotch credentials, and rather than just condemning those scholars who disagree with him, I would have preferred a cooler headed approach.
	www.amazon.ca /Origin-Language-Tracing-Evolution-Mother/dp/0471159638 (2575 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue - Merritt Ruhlen - Product ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ruhlen argues that no such analysis was necessary to identify Indo-European, which was discovered on the strength of word lists alone.
		Ruhlen notes correctly that often a /k/ sound is voiced to /g/, or that /t/ sounds can be palatized to /c/ or /s/ sounds.
		Ruhlen shows that it is possible to uncover some clues to its content by working backward, just as we have to reconstruct the Proto-language families.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0471159638-locale-us.html (1636 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| In Search of the First Language \| PBS
		MERRITT RUHLEN: Now, using traditional methods of comparative linguistics, linguists have been able to show that there are many language families around the world.
		PETER THOMAS: Another example Ruhlen offers is the word "maliqa." Appearing in English as "milk," the word form shows up around the word with meanings which are associated with milk, or suckle, or breast, or throat.
		For Ruhlen and a few other linguists, this is compelling evidence that deep in the mists of time, there was one word for something like "to suckle, " which has survived in each of the world's language families.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2120glang.html (6653 words)

	Comments on 4430 \| MetaFilter
		Foremost is the claim, taken from Merritt Ruhlen, that "The 260 or so Aboriginal Australian languages are usually considered to belong to a single language family".
		Ruhlen and his teacher Joseph Greenberg, are isolated extremists in this regard, and are the object of much controversy and downright nastiness in historical linguistics.
		Ruhlen in particular is fond of ex cathedra pronouncements like this.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/4430 (979 words)

	Obscure language links Asians and Native Americans - November 8, 1998
		Merritt Ruhlen of Stanford University has found compelling similarities between Ket, a language spoken by just 500 people in remote Siberia, and Na-Dene, a family of Native American languages.
		Ruhlen found enough other similarities to convince him of the link.
		Ruhlen pointed out that Eskimo Aleut shows a number of similarities with European and Asian languages.
	www.lds-mormon.com /science_languages_reut.shtml (478 words)

	Merritt Ruhlen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973 with a dissertation on the generative analysis of Romanian morphology.
		He is currently a lecturer in Anthropological Sciences and Human Biology at Stanford and a co-director of the Santa Fe Institute Program on the Evolution of Human Languages.
		Ruhlen, M., On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merritt_Ruhlen (684 words)

	Babel
		Merrit Ruhlen (not a creationist) points out much of this data in his book, Merritt Ruhlen, The Origin of Language, (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994).
		Ruhlen presents a lot of data on three of the words which indicate a former connection.
		Ruhlen postulates that the original word for water was aqwa.
	home.entouch.net /dmd/babel.htm (1325 words)

	Linguistic Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An article published in the Nov. 10 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled "The Origin of the Na-Dene," by human biology lecturer Merritt Ruhlen, provides linguistic evidence that the Yeniseian family of languages, spoken in central Siberia, is related to the Na-Dene language family, which is mostly spoken in northwestern North America.
		According to the article, Ruhlen's hypothesis locates the source of one of the three human migrations that peopled the Americas.
		Ruhlen's research includes 36 sets of similar-meaning words having to do with basic vocabulary such as "children" and "hunger," in addition to words for body parts such as "foot," flora and nature such as "lake" and "birch bark," fauna such as "deer" and cultural artifacts such as "boat."
	home.comcast.net /~ewhiteside/truth/amerindian/origins020.html (560 words)

	Language Log: The Emperor's Clothes
		A few days ago in suggesting reliable sources for information on linguistic classification I described Merritt Ruhlen's approach as "unreliable at higher-levels due to its reliance on an unsound and subjective approach to linguistic classification".
		Those who have some familiarity with the debate over what sort of evidence is necessary to establish linguistic relationships no doubt assumed that I was referring to the fact that Ruhlen is an advocate of an approach dubbed "mass lexical comparison" that is known to be unsound.
		Nowhere in the writings of people like Merritt Ruhlen or Joseph Greenberg will you find an exposition of an objective technique for subgrouping.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/003036.html (1047 words)

	languagehat.com: CLASSIFYING LANGUAGES.
		I'm afraid that the fact that Scientific American has published Merritt Ruhlen is an indication of the incompetence of Scientific American in matters linguistic rather than an endorsement of Ruhlen's linguistics.
		Ruhlen 1991, no matter what you think of his own methodology, has a big advantage over the Ethnologue: he sources every classification, and where the subclassification of a family is controversial, he regularly gives several different trees indicating different historical linguists' theories.
		Merritt Ruhlen has a reasonable hypothesis: If Africa was the cradle of mankind (the human race) as most anthropologists now believe, and that all humans in the world descend from a single woman in Africa("Eve") who lived about 150,000 years ago then somewhere back in time we all spoke a common language.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/002335.php (2133 words)

	Center for the Study of the First Americans
		“Given such independent creation of language,” Ruhlen wrote in his conference abstract, “there would be no reason to expect different populations to have chosen similar words for similar meanings since the arbitrary connection between sound and meaning is in fact the defining characteristic of human language.
		Ruhlen said recent research suggests that all language families share similarities in words “such that a common origin for all these families (and hence all languages) must be presumed.”
		While that might seem to rule out the multiregional model, Ruhlen cautioned that “there is at present no linguistic evidence that the homeland of this original language was in Africa.
	www.centerfirstamericans.com /mt.php?a=198 (2042 words)

	The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue - Merritt Ruhlen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In The Origin of Language noted linguist Merritt Ruhlen takes you on a fascinating journey of discovery back through nearly 100,000 years of human history and prehistory in pursuit of the language from which all modern tongues derive.
		Requiring no prior familiarity with linguistics, The Origin of Language is the first book to explain, in laymen's terms, the controversial process by which linguists are tracing the development of the vast range of human speech, sweeping aside many traditional assumptions about the spread of language and the roots of the human family.
		In addition to acquainting you with the manner in which such diverse languages as English and Chinese can be compared, Dr. Ruhlen introduces you to the brilliant mavericks whose linguistic theories are at last gaining worldwide acceptance.
	www.biblio.com /books/98119955.html (507 words)

	Amazon.de: A Guide to the World's Languages: Classifications: 1: English Books: Merritt Ruhlen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In addition, Ruhlen has five chapters each devoted to one part of the world, a chapter on classification principles, and a chapter on future research.
		Ruhlen's classifications are at times controversial, especially when he combines all the world's 5000-odd languages into only 17 families.
		He relies heavily on the work of Joseph H. Greenberg, but admits frankly which groupings are controversial and which linguists disagree.
	www.amazon.de /A-Guide-Worlds-Languages-Classifications/dp/0804712506 (618 words)

	LINGUIST List 6.761: Algonquian homeland
		First, Ruhlen says that 'Frank Siebert has proposed the area of the eastern upper Great Lakes as the origin of the Algonquian dispersal'.
		Secondly, and more importantly, Ruhlen appeals to Sapir's Age-Area hypothesis to the effect that the area of greatest diversity in a family is likely to point to the original homeland of the family.
		Since the greatest divergence is evidently between Blackfoot and the rest of the family, in the southwest of the family's extent, Ruhlen suggests, _contra_ Siebert, that the homeland is there, and that the family's closest external relatives are also in that direction.
	linguistlist.org /issues/6/6-761.html (1239 words)

	Study enhances theory linking America, Siberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) A few words in one of the planet's most obscure languages may help support the theory that Native Americans left Asia in several separate migrations, a linguist said in an article released Monday.
		Ruhlen stumbled onto doing a comparison of Yeniseian and Na-Dene languages while doing other comparisons.
		There are enough of these instances to convince Ruhlen.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news88.htm (403 words)

	Uncle Orson Looks at American Culture 1996 - Listening for the Voice of Eve
		And when two languages have more than a few of those marker words in common, or in forms that clearly have a close relationship of meaning and sound so that a simple evolutionary path can be imagined, then it is hard to escape the conclusion that those languages are related somehow.
		The underlying principle is sound, and the experience of tracing through the patterns of language relationships with Ruhlen is fascinating.
		He is probably wrong in some details, as he himself makes clear, but he is probably right in the fundamental principle he assumes and even in his methodology in applying it.
	www.hatrack.com /osc/reviews/reviews96/ruhlen.shtml (632 words)

	Textbooks by Merritt Ruhlen - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue by Merritt Ruhlen
		On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy by Merritt Ruhlen
		Ruhlen Unknown Binding 356 pages, 1976 More Editions of This Book
	www.directtextbook.com /author/merritt-ruhlen (403 words)

	really good news:linguistics and genetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Origin of Language, Merritt Ruhlen discusses the methods of linguistics and applies them to a search for the mother-tongue.
		Dr. Ruhlen diagrams the language families and their time-lines and divergences.
		Conclusions are supported by Cavalli-Sforza's genetic "clock" study of divergence of populations.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/ebrownle2/p.html (127 words)

	LINGUIST List 6.589: Zoroastrianism, Relevance theory, Algonquian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Content-Length: 3292 Before I even mention the topic of my enquiry, I should say that this is a request for information, not a covert attempt to stir up controversy.
		This would be based on a claim that the rest of the family shares a set of innovations relative to Proto Algonquian (a Proto Algonquian whose reconstruction also takes full account of Blackfoot data).
		I would be grateful to anyone who could point me towards any work (since Goddard's account?) that would cast light on the question of Algonquian subgrouping and the homeland or who could comment knowledgably on Ruhlen's homeland hypothesis.
	linguist.emich.edu /issues/6/6-589.html (512 words)

	LINGUIST List 8.721: Ruhlen book, Computer terms, ASL errors
		We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question.
		Now, as I was browsing the electronic shelves at www.amazon.com, I came across Merritt Ruhlen's "On the Origin of Languages", complete with card catalog description and table of contents.
		I read the description, which is rather misleading (I am being charitable), but when it came to the table of contents...
	linguistlist.org /issues/8/8-721.html (625 words)

	201Gnrl"InSrchFrstLg"FllOtln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		What is the central issue in the study of language that is raised at the beginning of the film about trees and trunks by Merritt Ruhlen?
		Question 15. At approximately what point in the past is the complexity of human activity such as to indicate the use of language (according to Chris Stringer)?
		Question 16. According to Merritt Ruhlen, what is the significance of the form *malika in the study of language in general?
	lang.syr.edu /BigC/firstlang.html (456 words)

	A guide to the world's languages by Merritt Ruhlen \| LibraryThing
		A guide to the world's languages by Merritt Ruhlen
		The origin of language : tracing the evolution of the mother tongue by Merritt Ruhlen (5/32)
		The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue by Merritt Ruhlen (Amazon
	www.librarything.com /catalog.php?book=2389255 (288 words)

	LINGUISTICS AT THE EXPLORATORIUM - Briefme.com
		For the linguist in the family, Exploratorium Magazine Online has an extensive five-page article documenting current scientific thought about the origin of the world's languages.
		With Linguist Merritt Ruhlen, author of "The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of Regional Dialects," Exploratorium Magazine discusses and defines the often-confusing world of linguistics.
		The site is well documented and provides links to other informational sites, definitions, and audio recordings of Ruhlen.
	www.briefme.com /archive/article/30286 (108 words)

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