Re: Paleoasiatic (was: Favourite Language Group?)

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From: "Pavel Iosad" <pavel_iosad@...>
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Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: Paleoasiatic (was: Favourite Language Group?)


> Hello,
>
> > >- Paleoasiatic
> >
> > What's this?
>
> Citing Volodin A. P. Introduction // Languages of the World.
> Paleoasiatic languages. Moscow: Indrik, 1997
>
> Paleoasiatic (or PaleoSiberian) languages are a conventional entity of
> several genetically unrelated languages and small language groups,
> united on geographical principles. The term belongs to L. I. Shrenk, who
> in mid-19th century offered the hypothesis that the Paleoasatic peoples,
> as a result of the expansion of the Altaic peoples (Turks, Mongols,
> Tungus-Manchu peoples), were partly assimilated by the newcomers and
> partly confined to the northern and northeastern fringes of Asia and
> into North America. [...] the following languages are usually classified
> as Paleoasiatic: Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, Yenissean, as well as
> the genetically isolated Yukaghir and Nivkh [...]
>

Ah...Paleosiberian...ok