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Amerind languages

Amerind is a widely rejected 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…

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Geographic distribution
Americas
Glottolog
None
Linguistic classification
Proposed language family
Subdivisions
Almosan–Keresiouan · Hokan–Penutian · Central Amerind · Andean–Chibchan–Paezan · Equatorial–Tucanoan

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Amerind languages

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Edges206
Triples12
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009662
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Amerind languages

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Subdivisions · 6
Amerind languages → Almosan–Keresiouan, Andean–Chibchan–Paezan, Central Amerind, Equatorial–Tucanoan, Ge–Pano–Carib, Hokan–Penutian
Geographic distribution · 1
Amerind languages → Americas
Glottolog · 1
Amerind languages → None
Linguistic classification · 1
Amerind languages → Proposed language family

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languages amerind language greenberg americas american ruhlen linguists proposed also sapir joseph indigenous penutian family classification merritt historical spurious ge

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Amerind languagesGeographic distributionAmericas1.00infobox
Amerind languagesGlottologNone1.00infobox
Amerind languagesLinguistic classificationProposed language family1.00infobox
Amerind languagesSubdivisionsAlmosan–Keresiouan1.00infobox
Amerind languagesSubdivisionsHokan–Penutian1.00infobox
Amerind languagesSubdivisionsCentral Amerind1.00infobox
Amerind languagesSubdivisionsAndean–Chibchan–Paezan1.00infobox
Amerind languagesSubdivisionsEquatorial–Tucanoan1.00infobox
Amerind languagesSubdivisionsGe–Pano–Carib1.00infobox
Peter Stephen DuPonceauinstance ofwhen early linguists0.80text
Wilhelm von Humboldt noticed that the languages of the Americas seemed to be very different from the better-known European languagesinstance ofwhen early linguists0.80text
yet seemingly also quite similar to each otherinstance ofwhen early linguists0.80text

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