That text has some words in some order and i have absolutely no idea what it is saying… Maybe not the best idea to post advanced… something about something very specific that requires extensive studies in this topic… which i don’t even know.. is it linguistics?
Interesting idea. Linguistic history seems to be an emerging tool nowadays in determining human migration and settlement history.
I hope it’ll become more commonly used in combination with archeology and anthropology, it’s already been used to decipher a clearer image of how modern day Finland was populated, and by whom.
Wikipedia has some more:
The Eskimo–Uralic hypothesis posits that the Uralic and Eskimo–Aleut language families belong to a common macrofamily. It is not generally accepted by linguists because the similarities can also be merely areal features, common to unrelated language families
So if I understand it right, the author just suggests that an Uralic–Eskimo-Aleut relationship is not a *worse* idea than Uralic–Indo-European, but further research is still needed. That’s like saying: we don’t know.
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That text has some words in some order and i have absolutely no idea what it is saying… Maybe not the best idea to post advanced… something about something very specific that requires extensive studies in this topic… which i don’t even know.. is it linguistics?
Interesting idea. Linguistic history seems to be an emerging tool nowadays in determining human migration and settlement history.
I hope it’ll become more commonly used in combination with archeology and anthropology, it’s already been used to decipher a clearer image of how modern day Finland was populated, and by whom.
Wikipedia has some more:
The Eskimo–Uralic hypothesis posits that the Uralic and Eskimo–Aleut language families belong to a common macrofamily. It is not generally accepted by linguists because the similarities can also be merely areal features, common to unrelated language families
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo%E2%80%93Uralic_languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo%E2%80%93Uralic_languages)
So if I understand it right, the author just suggests that an Uralic–Eskimo-Aleut relationship is not a *worse* idea than Uralic–Indo-European, but further research is still needed. That’s like saying: we don’t know.