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    Na-Dene (/ˌnɑːdɪˈneɪ/ NAH-dih-NAY; also Nadene, Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at...
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    Yeniseian languages (category Dené–Yeniseian languages)
    others to "Dené–Caucasian" to include the Na-Dené languages of North America, Burushaski, Basque and, occasionally, Etruscan. A narrower binary Dené–Yeniseian...
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    the Yeniseian and Na-Dené languages form two branches of an ancient family represented on both sides of the Bering Strait: the Dené–Yeniseian languages...
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    does in fact belong to the Na-Dené family, though early loanwords make the evidence problematic. A proposal linking Na-Dené to the Yeniseian family of...
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    Tlingit language (category Na-Dene languages)
    separate branch of Na-Dene, an indigenous language family of North America. Edward Sapir (1915) argued for its inclusion in the Na-Dené family, a claim that...
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  • Edward Vajda (category Linguists of Na-Dene languages)
    proposed Dené–Yeniseian language family, seeking to establish that the Ket language of Siberia has a common linguistic ancestor with the Na-Dené languages...
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    (Coahuilteco + Cotoname + Comecrudan + Karankawa + Tonkawa) Cunza–Kapixanan Dené–Caucasian Dené–Yeniseian Esmeralda–Yaruroan Ge–Pano–Carib Guamo–Chapacuran Gulf...
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  • (macro-families). Support for these proposals vary from case to case. For example, the Dené–Yeniseian languages are a recent proposal which has been generally well received...
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    Hmong–Mien) within the framework of his larger Dené–Daic proposal, with Austric as a coordinate branch to Dené–Caucasian, as shown in the tree below. Another...
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    Hungarian-Etruscan Sino-Uralic languages Cal-Ugrian theory Dené-Finnish (Sino-Tibetan, Na-Dené and Uralic) Minoan-Uralic Alternative theories of Hungarian...
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    1075/dia.22.1.09geo. Jan Henrik Holst, Einführung in die eskimo-aleutischen Sprachen. Buske Verlag Mattissen, Johanna. Dependent–Head Synthesis in Nivkh: A...
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  • Broome: Magabala Books. Haarmann, Harald. 2002. Lexikon der untergegangenen Sprachen. München: Beck; p. 188 "Ethnologue report for language code: huw". Archived...
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    Schreiber, Henning (2008). Eine historische Phonologie der Niger-Volta-Sprachen: Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Sprachgeschichte der östlichen Ost-Mandesprachen...
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    Hamburg:Helmut Buske Verlag. Thilo C. Schadeberg. 1981b. "Das Kordofanische". Die Sprachen Afrikas. Band 1: Niger–Kordofanisch, ed. by Bernd Heine, T. C. Schadeberg...
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    that ultimately all of the families of America (except Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene) are related. These classifications have been criticized by most Americanists...
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