Terminology. There is no generally accepted term for this concept. Most treatments of the subject do not include a name for the language under consideration (e.g. Bengtson and Ruhlen).The terms Proto-World and Proto-Human are in occasional use. Merritt Ruhlen had been using the term Proto-Sapiens.. History of the idea. The first serious scientific attempt to establish the …

L’origine du langage humain a toujours suscité l’intérêt des penseurs. De nombreux mythes tendent à donner aux langues une origine surnaturelle.La Bible explique ainsi la multiplicité des langues par le mythe de la Tour de Babel, selon lequel la langue unique des origines aurait été divisée en une multitude de langues pour apporter la discorde entre les hommes et les …

Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen. Greenberg proposed that all of the indigenous languages of the Americas belong to one of three language families, the previously established Eskimo–Aleut and Na–Dene, and with everything else—otherwise classified by specialists as …

Die uralischen Sprachen bilden eine Familie von etwa 30 Sprachen, die von rund 25 Mio.Menschen gesprochen werden. Das Ausbreitungsgebiet erstreckt sich über weite Teile des nördlichen Eurasiens von Skandinavien bis über den Ural auf die Taimyr-Halbinsel.Außerdem gehört das Ungarische in Mitteleuropa zu dieser Sprachfamilie.. Typologisch haben die uralischen …

Muchos sostienen que los términos de parentesco mamá y papá corresponden a un caso especial de falsos cognados.Las similitudes interlingüísticas de estos términos se cree que provienen de la propia naturaleza de la adquisición del lenguaje. [3] De entre los balbuceos de un bebé aprendiendo a hablar, estas suelen ser las primeras palabras identificadas, y los padres …

Tengrism differs from contemporary Siberian shamanism in that it was a more organized religion. Additionally the polities practicing it were not small bands of hunter-gatherers like the Paleosiberians, but a continuous succession of pastoral, semi-sedentarized khanates and empires from the Xiongnu Empire (founded 209 BC) to the Mongol Empire (13th century).

Los ingusetios vivieron en las montañas hasta los siglos XVI-XVII, cuando parte de ellos comenzaron a descender hacia las llanuras.En 1810 el Imperio ruso se anexionó Ingusetia, construyendo allí fortificaciones y trasladando a un gran número de ingusetios a la base militar de Nazran.El mandato ruso fue represivo, por lo que entre los ingusetios se desarrolló la …

Het Proto-World is in de evolutionaire taalwetenschap de hypothetische vooroudertaal (proto-taal) waarvan alle bestaande natuurlijke talen uiteindelijk zouden afstammen. Ook gebruikelijk zijn de termen Proto-Human, bedacht door de taalkundigen Harold Fleming en John Bengtson, en Proto-Sapiens, bedacht door Merritt Ruhlen.De taal zou zijn gesproken in India, waar een grote …

Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories.The lumper–splitter problem occurs when there is the desire to create classifications and assign examples to them, for example schools of literature, biological taxa and so on. A "lumper" is an individual who takes a gestalt view of a …

Dené–Yeniseian is a proposed language family consisting of the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia and the Na-Dené languages of northwestern North America.. Reception among experts has been somewhat favorable; thus, Dené–Yeniseian has been called "the first demonstration of a genealogical link between Old World and New World language families that meets the …