• Linguistic homeland (redirect from Urheimat)
    In historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (/ˈʊərhaɪmɑːt/ OOR-hye-maht, from German ur- "original" and Heimat, home) of a proto-language is the...
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  • family. There is no consensus regarding the location of the Proto-Semitic Urheimat: scholars hypothesize that it may have originated in the Levant, the Sahara...
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    The Proto-Afroasiatic homeland is the hypothetical place where speakers of the Proto-Afroasiatic language lived in a single linguistic community, or complex...
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    after around 2600 BC caused new migrations. No scholarly consensus on the Urheimat, or original homeland, of the Ugric peoples exists: they lived either in...
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    2015 gave support to the steppe hypothesis regarding the Indo-European Urheimat. According to those studies, specific subclades of Y chromosome haplogroups...
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  • sodality Statistext Tribal name Tribalism Detribalization Neo-Tribalism Urheimat White ethnic Multiethnic society Consociationalism Cultural appropriation...
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    of a series on the History of Bangladesh Etymology Timeline Traditional Urheimat Ancient Neolithic, c. 7600 – c. 3300 BCE Bronze Age, c. 3300 – c. 1200...
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    (Proto-East Asian). Vovin (2014) has proposed that the location of the Japonic Urheimat (linguistic homeland) is in southern China. He argues for typological evidence...
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    places the Volga-Dnieper region of southern Russia and Ukraine as the urheimat of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic–Caspian...
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    aquatic phenomena as evidence against a coastal, lacustrine, or riverine Urheimat. Proto-Yuman reconstructions by Mixco (1978): Laylander, Don (2010). "Linguistic...
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  • The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with half a million speakers. Scholars...
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  • Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is thought to have originally...
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  • The Anatolian hypothesis, also known as the Anatolian theory or the sedentary farmer theory, first developed by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in...
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    Hungarians' ancestral home. Contemporary Uralic linguistics locates the Urheimat of the Ugric language family to Southwestern Siberia, at the margin of...
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    BC) with the Proto-Uralic urheimat, and the following Volosovo culture (ca. 3650–1900 BC) with the Proto-Finno-Ugric urheimat. Two Finnish scholars believe...
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    Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages...
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  • languages, and point to a steppe origin. The archaeological part posits an "Urheimat" on the Pontic steppes, which developed after the introduction of cattle...
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    Early Slavs (redirect from Slavic urheimat)
    Surowiecki, Pavel Jozef Šafárik and other historians, who searched the Slavic Urheimat in the lands that the Venethi (a people named in Tacitus's Germania) lived...
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    sodality Statistext Tribal name Tribalism Detribalization Neo-Tribalism Urheimat White ethnic Multiethnic society Consociationalism Cultural appropriation...
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    founding population of Rom almost certainly experienced in their south Asian urheimat. Many groups use names derived from the Romani word kalo or calo, meaning...
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  • Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all...
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    The name Uralic derives from the family's purported "original homeland" (Urheimat) hypothesized to have been somewhere in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains...
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  • tackled the question of the Indo-Europeans' original homeland (also called Urheimat, from German), had essentially only linguistic evidence. They attempted...
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    the region during the ensuing Neolithic era from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley, or the Near East. The majority...
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    the common era, archeological and linguistic evidence suggest that the Urheimat ('original homeland') of the Proto-Germanic language, the ancestral idiom...
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    Uralic–Yukaghir, also known as Uralo-Yukaghir, is a highly controversial proposed language family composed of Uralic and Yukaghir. Uralic is a large and...
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  • Proto-Yoruboid is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Yoruboid languages, a subgroup of the Volta-Niger languages. It was likely spoken in what is...
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    are Tupi proper and Guarani. Rodrigues (2007) considers the Proto-Tupian urheimat to be somewhere between the Guaporé and Aripuanã rivers, in the Madeira...
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    sodality Statistext Tribal name Tribalism Detribalization Neo-Tribalism Urheimat White ethnic Multiethnic society Consociationalism Cultural appropriation...
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    neighbouring areas. The Arabian Peninsula has long been accepted as the original Urheimat of the Semitic languages by most scholars. The seventh century saw the...
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