The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the Algonquian languages. ... Algonquian languages and that such a position would be difficult in principle to differentiate from analyzing PEA as a genetic subgroup. Eastern Algonquian subgroupings ... The amount of evidence for each subgrouping varies, and the incomplete record for ...

Eastern Algonquian is a true genetic subgrouping. The Plains Algonquian and the Central Algonquian groups are not genetic groupings but rather areal groupings. Although these areal groups often do share linguistic features, these commonalities are usually attributed to …

Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztekan / ˈ juː t oʊ. æ z ˈ t ɛ k ən / or (rarely in English) Uto-Nahuatl is a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages.Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico.The name of the language family was created to show that it includes both the Ute language of Utah and the …

Mayan languages are the descendants of a proto-language called Proto-Mayan or, in Kʼicheʼ Maya, Nabʼee Mayaʼ Tzij ("the old Maya Language"). The Proto-Mayan language is believed to have been spoken in the Cuchumatanes highlands of central Guatemala in an area corresponding roughly to where Qʼanjobalan is spoken today. The earliest proposal which identified the …

Classification. The Algonquian language family of which Ojibwemowin is a member is itself a member of the Algic language family, other Algic languages being Wiyot and Yurok. Ojibwe is sometimes described as a Central Algonquian language, along with Fox, Cree, Menominee, Miami-Illinois, Potawatomi, and Shawnee. Central Algonquian is a geographical term of …

Athabaskan (also spelled Athabascan, Athapaskan or Athapascan, and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean. Chipewyan is spoken over the largest area of any North American native language, while Navajo is spoken by the …

A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. This is a typical occurrence with widely spread languages and language families around the world, when these …

Aug 22, 2012 · Over time, we would discover additional Y-DNA genetic Speak lines. Bonus Cousin. Y-DNA also revealed an amazing new cousin, Henry, who didn’t know who his father was, but thanks to DNA, discovered he is a genetic Speaks AND identified his father. In 2006, our Y-DNA haplogroup was known only as I1b1. We knew it was fairly rare and found in the ...

In historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (/ ˈ ʊər h aɪ m ɑː t /, from German ur-"original" and Heimat, home) of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages.A proto-language is the reconstructed or historically-attested parent language of a group of languages that are genetically related.