Paleoasiatic (was: Favourite Language Group?)

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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 [...]

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