Talk:Paleosiberian languages
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Took out the wording of "unsuccessful" attempts to link Yeniseian to N Caucasian or ST, as that's a bit POV. (Dene-Caucasian isn't widely accepted, but the wording suggests it's been disproven, rather than not well demonstrated.) Also mentioned Ket isn't really an isolate; Yugh may still be spoken by a couple people, and if not, it only recently went extinct. Starostin and others have recently proposed a Karasuk family consisting of Yeniseian and Burushaski; the proposed cognates include parallel irregular morphology in the 2SG pronouns. That hypothesis doesn't depend on the success of Dene-Caucasian as a whole.
Also, I've never heard of links between Ainu and IP, though I thought there were some speculations about Ainu and Austronesian, which makes more sense geographically. --kwami 05:32, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Me neither, but I thought the Ainu links were with Austroasiatic (Vovin.) - Mustafaa 21:05, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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- Ainu has been linked to pretty much every other language family in Eurasia, but Austronesian and Altaic are a little more plausible than Indo-Pacific or Kalto. And Ainu isn't usually considered to be a Paleosiberian language anyway - most sources just list four families and isolates. Also I changed 'Kamchadal' to 'Itelmen', since it's the term generally used for the language surviving today. Chamdarae 18:16, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
Whether it gets verified or not, Inuit is the wrong term to use for a supposed connection to New World languages, as it leaves out the Yupik and Aleut languages. Substituting Eskimo-Aleut. Ergative rlt 23:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
