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	Study enhances theory linking America, Siberia
		Ket is a member of the Yeniseian family of languages.
		All the other languages in the family became extinct in the 19th century.
		For instance, English is an Indo-European language, one of a family of languages that ranges from Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, to German and French.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news88.htm (403 words)

	Yeniseian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yeniseian family of languages (sometimes known as Yenisei-Ostyak) is spoken in central Siberia.
		Another unrelated language formerly known as Ostyak is Khanty, a Uralic language spoken in the neighbouring region of Khantia-Mansia.
		The Yeniseian languages have highly elaborate verbal morphology, to an extreme found elsewhere in Eurasia only in Burushaski and, to a lesser extent, in Basque and the Caucasian languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yeniseian_languages (357 words)

	Yeniseian languages - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		It appears from Chinese sources that a Yeniseian group was among the peoples that made up the tribal confederation known as the Huns.
		Attempts have been made by Soviet scholars to establish a relationship with the Burushaski or Sino-Tibetan languages, and Yeniseian frequently forms part of the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis, all of which remain speculative.
		Recently, George van Driem put forward new evidence, mostly morphological, that the Yeniseian family may be related to Burushaski in a family he calls Karasuk.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/y/e/n/Yeniseian_languages.html (303 words)

	Language families and languages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram).
		Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic.
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Language_families_and_languages (824 words)

	Center for the Study of the First Americans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The four-branch Na-Dene language family is made up of the three single languages--Haida, Tlingit, and Eyak--which are spoken along the coastline of western Canada and southern Alaska, and the Athabaskan group of languages.
		These Athabaskan languages are found in interior Alaska and western Canada as well as certain parts of the Pacific coast of Oregon and California and in the American Southwest (Navajo, Apache).
		Language is notoriously unreliable at giving reliable dates for early language families such as Amerind.
	www.centerfirstamericans.com /mt.php?a=6 (1119 words)

	Quaest.io on Language Family (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The common ancestor of the languages belonging to a language family is known as its protolanguage.
		Languages are considered unclassified either because, for one reason or another, little effort has been made to compare them with other languages, or, more commonly, because they are too poorly documented to permit reliable classification.
		Although deaf sign languages have emerged naturally in deaf communities alongside or among spoken languages, they are unrelated to spoken languages and have different grammatical structures at their core.
	www.quaest.io /?title=language-family (1119 words)

	Yeniseian languages - Mirror of Wikipedia - 维库提供服务
		Another unrelated language formerly known as Ostyak is Khanty, a Uralic language spoken in the neighbouring region of Khantia-Mansia.
		Attempts have been made by Russian scholars to establish a relationship with Burushaski or the Sino-Tibetan languages, and Yeniseian frequently forms part of the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis or variants thereof, for example Edward Vajda proposed relationship between Yeniseian and Na-Dene based on tonogenesis, sound correspondences, and common vocabulary.
		The Yeniseian languages have highly elaborate verbal morphology, to an extreme found elsewhere in Eurasia only in Burushaski and, to a lesser extent, in Basque and the Caucasian languages.
	en.wikilib.com /wiki/Yeniseian_languages (338 words)

	Language family (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Language contact is common, making clear family classifications difficult — it is often unclear whether lexical similarity is due to borrowing or a common parent language.
		Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
		According to a SIL report, sign languages of Russia, Moldova and Ukraine share a high degree of lexical similarity and may be dialects of one language, or distinct related languages.
	articles.gourt.com /?article=language+family&type=en (1454 words)

	East Asian Studies 210 Notes: The Ket
		The Yeniseian peoples are thought to be descendents of some of the earliest inhabitants of Central Southern Siberia, while all of their neighbors seem to be relative newcomers.
		This language, in turn, may have been related to such far-flung languages as Basque in Spain, Burushaski in northern India, the native languages of the Caucusus, as well as Tibetan and Chinese.
		There is also evidence that the southernmost Yeniseian peoples--the Arins and others-- had knowledge of iron smelting, and participated in livestock raising, features which the northermost Ket either lost during their migrations into the forest zone or never developed.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/ket.htm (1531 words)

	Burushaski peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Burushaski (ISO/DIS 639-3 bsk) is a language isolate spoken by some 50,000-60,000 Burusho people in the Hunza Valley, Nagir, Yasin Valley, and parts of the Gilgit Valley valleys in northern Pakistan.
		The language was seldom written for centuries; today it uses a modified version of the Arabic script, and Partawi Shah has written poetry in Burushaski.
		Agreement (linguistics) on the verb has both Nominative-accusative language and Ergative-absolutive language features: transitive verbs mark both the subject and object of a clause, while intransitive verbs mark their sole argument as both a subject and an object.
	www.peee.org /en/Burushaski (767 words)

	Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
		There has been very little historical linguistic research on sign languages, and few attempts to determine genetic relationships between sign languages, other than simple comparison of lexical data and some discussion about whether certain sign languages are dialects of a language or languages of a family.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Language_family (996 words)

	Turkic languages peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers.
		For centuries, the Turkic speaking peoples have migrated extensively and intermingled continuously, and their languages have been influenced mutually and through contact with the surrounding languages, especially the Iranian languages, Slavic languages, and Mongolic languages languages.
		Geographically and linguistically, the languages of Southwestern, Northwestern, and Southeastern subgroup belong to the central Turkic languages, while the Northeastern, Khalaj language is the so-called peripheral language.
	www.peee.org /en/Turkic+languages (318 words)

	SOUNDOVER.COM: Language Families
		The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language.
		The Indo-European languages are a group of several hundred languages and dialects, including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Asia, which belong to a single superfamily.
	www.soundover.com /families.html (1055 words)

	Yeniseian_languages - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Attempts have been made by Russian scholars to establish a relationship with Burushaski or the Sino-Tibetan languages, and Yeniseian frequently forms part of the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis or variants thereof.
		The genetic relations between Yeniseian languages and Na-Dene also were proposed by the american linguist Vajda, a specialist about Haida, although he does not agree with the further proposed relations with Caucasian languages.
		The Yeniseian languages have highly elaborate verbal morphology, to an extreme found elsewhere in Eurasia only in Burushaski and, to a lesser extent, in Basque and the Languages of the Caucasus.
	www.thewordbook.com /Yeniseian_languages (480 words)

	Yeniseian languages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Yenisei-Ostyak language family is spoken in central Siberia.
		Only two languages remain of this family, Ket, with around 1,000 speakers and Yugh, with less than 5 speakers remaining, possibly extinct.
		Attempts have been made by Soviet scholars to establish a relationship with either Burushaski or the Sino-Tibetan languages, and Yeniseian frequently forms part of the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yeniseian_languages (309 words)

	Obscure language links Asians and Native Americans - November 8, 1998
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A few words in one of the planet's most obscure languages support the theory that Native Americans left Asia in several separate migrations, a linguist said in an article to be released Monday.
		Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he gives examples of 36 words that are similar in the two language families, including the words for birch bark, children and rabbit.
		Some of the original Yeniseian speakers would have stayed behind in Siberia, while others moved across the land bridge to help establish the populations in North America, Ruhlen said.
	www.lds-mormon.com /science_languages_reut.shtml (478 words)

	Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Paleoasian languages
		Luorawetlan (Chukotka-Kamchatka) languages - a family of languages spoken by the native population of the Chukotka and Kamchatka peninsulas.
		Eskimo-Aleut languages - a family of languages spoken in the Chukotka Peninsula and the Bering Island (Russia), in Alaska and the Aleut Islands (USA), in the northern regions of Canada and in Greenland.
		The Chukchi, Eskimo, Koryak and Nivkh written languages were created in the 1930's (first on the Latin, later Russian script).
	www.peoples.org.ru /eng_paleoaz.html (140 words)

	Where Did Nadene And Kets Came From - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		language, dissappeared as a distinct ethnic entity by
		Department of Siberian languages of the Academy of
		Siberia, the Selkup language of the Tomsk region, the
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5961 (2139 words)

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		The Turkic languages expanded in the first millennium C.E. from their inferred homeland in the Altai mountains to include Central Asia and Anatolia; the precise origin of the Turks remains obscure, however.
		Other groups were clearly incorporated into the Turkic hordes during the early days of their expansion, including those speaking Uralic and Yeniseian languages.
		The Yeniseian languages, once widespread across the region, are now represented only by Ket, a linguistic isolate spoken by approximately 500-1000 people living near the Yenisei River north of Krasnoyarsk.
	popgen.well.ox.ac.uk /eurasia/htdocs/ea98back.html (810 words)

	A comparison of prefixal morphemes and their relative positions in the finite verb complex of Ket (an isolate spoken in ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A comparison of prefixal morphemes and their relative positions in the finite verb complex of Ket (an isolate spoken in Central Siberia by about 500 people) suggests that Yeniseian (a micro-family including Ket and several extinct, closely related languages) may be genetically related to Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (AET).
		Ket is unique among the worlds living languages in that its actant agreement typology is lexical rather than grammatical.
		The suggested conclusion is that Yeniseian represents the only surviving Asian linguistic cousin of AET, the last American Indian family to become established in North America.
	www.uaf.edu /anlc/alc/2000/conference/vajda.htm (262 words)

	Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Contact occurs between sign languages, between signed and spoken languages (Contact Sign), and between sign languages and gestural systems used by the broader community.
		Japanese Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Korean Sign Language are thought to be members of a Japanese Sign Language family.
		Anecdotal evidence suggests that Finnish Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language and Norwegian Sign Language belong to a Scandanavian Sign Language family.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Language_family (1466 words)

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		I have also studied many other languages from genetically diverse families (not listed above) and am familiar enough with their basic linguistic data to use informed examples in my classes and in general research dealing with typological issues.
		Yeniseian Peoples and Languages: a history of their study with an annotated bibliography and a source guide.
		The language of the Ogam Inscriptions of Scotland, Richard Cox,
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/cv.htm (1844 words)

	mt32.html
		The Assocation for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP) is a nonprofit organization, incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
		Its purpose is to encourage and support the study of language in prehistory in all fields and by all means, including research on the early evolution of human language, supporting conferences, setting up a data bank, and publishing a newsletter (Long Ranger) and a journal (Mother Tongue) to report these activities.
		All this material is from the rich mother-lode of paleolinguistic research stimulated by the Ann Arbor Conference (Language in Prehistory, 1988) and its aftermath.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~witzel/mt32.htm (2243 words)

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	Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: indexes
		Demographic data for Finno-Ugrian languages compiled by Tapani Salminen appear as a separate table.
		Janhunen divided languages into seven categories, which he called (i) extinct, (ii) moribund or extinct, (iii) moribund, (iv) endangered or moribund, (v) endangered, (vi) potentially endangered, and (vii) not endangered languages.
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	Comparing Asian Nationalities \| Asian American Poll \| GoldSea
		The American Indian group of languages has never been proven by anyone to have descended from any other group of family of languages spoken anywhere in the world at any time in history.
		All American Indian languages evolved on their own over time from when they first ventured into America over 40 thousand years ago to the present time, and the mother language you say that they descend or are reminiscent of didn’t even exist at that time in human history.
		If you imagine it, this language group appears in East Asia, the Americas, Siberia, the Caucasus mountains and the isolated regions of farther Spain...this tells us that people in the past probably spoke only a couple languages and race back then probably did not evolved into what we are now.
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		Note that despite the Yeniseian language family having been called Yenisei-Ostyak in the past, the languages are entirely unrelated to Khanty, an Uralic language which has likewise been known as Ostyak.
		Lecture notes on the Ket people Written by Edward Vajda, a proponent of the Yeniseian-Na Dene connection.
		Vajda, Edward J. (Ed.): Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia.
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