Linguistics: Deep relationships between languages
Abstract
Tracing a common ancestry between languages becomes harder as the connection goes further back in time. A new test has revealed a surprisingly ancient relationship between a central Siberian and a North American language family.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- August 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1038/476291a
- Bibcode:
- 2011Natur.476..291D