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sufficient for this article to state that "Amerind Languages" refers to two things, namely "indigenous languages of the Americas" in generalized use and...

linguists to reject the hypothesis. That is mentioned. Fine. Correct mistakes: Amerind is not at the same level as Na-Dene or Eskimo-Aleut. It goes into a bigger...

The only Papuan languages with official recognition are those of East Timor. I don't think this is correct. While the indigenous languages of East Timor...

ones which actually name an "Eastern group" and "Western group"? Amerind languages would be in Borean according to Greenberg who is one major opinion...

his acknowledged work on the languages of Africa - in which he used almost exactly the same methods as he did for Amerind and Eurasiatic, which does lead...

04:22, 29 January 2014 (UTC) Joseph H. Greenberg & Merritt Ruhlen 2007, An Amerind Etymological Dictionary: IX MACRO-TUCANOAN → C CAPIXANA: Capixana (= Kanoê...

fudging definitions of language proposals to fit genomic results, ignoring things that don't fit (e.g. Na-Dene within Amerind). The amount of bullshit...

it's just a simple juxtaposition of "c" and "h". I seem to recall an Amerind language - Algonquian, if memory serves — which does just this, as /ts/ + /h/...

whether Shuswap is part of Mosan or Amerind is the accuracy of Greenberg's Shuswap data. Although Greenberg's Amerind data is notoriously bad, the reason...

correspondence between the proposed Amerind language and Finnish, and others were able to do so with Latin and many languages obviously not related to those...

suggestive of Greenberg's classification of American languages into one main Eurasiatic-like (Amerind), and two later ( Sino-Caucasian Na-Dene, and Eurasiatic...

grouping "Dené–Yeniseian languages" has not gained a wide enough acceptance among the relevant specialists to merit calling it a language family without any...

this article, it only refers to (Caucasian, Amerind and) "Indo-European languages", but most IE languages don't have them, whereas in Hungarian they're...

families below, and Borean above. It also has a few Amerind reconstructions credited to Ruhlen's Amerind dictionary; Ruhlen might well use different methodology...

this discussion not lasting weeks without an RfC is it’s Altaic and not Amerind or something else similar. Perhaps there’s a middle ground between winging...

orthography, but instead adopted an orthography based on plain-jane modern amerind linguistics (which I think was half a good move). But I wonder if, unless...

expert in either Uto-Aztecan or Tanoan languages, who accepts the relationship between Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan languages. It was based on a single article published...

misunderstanding of the relationship between languages and genes. After at least 8000 years of contacts with Amerind speakers on the Na-Dené side, and about...

No, but it is Nostratic, which is the higher branch to which Eurasiatic-Amerind belongs. 86.140.250.213 (talk) 15:03, 19 November 2010 (UTC) Today, an...

know the languages in question and could spot the kinds of errors that caused the academic community to trash long-range proposals like Amerind. Or to put...