The Status of Dene-Caucasian and Dene-Yeniseian
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The Status of Dene-Caucasian and Dene-Yeniseian
Just a quick question. Are these language groupings mainstream?
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Re: The Status of Dene-Caucasian and Dene-Yeniseian
Nope. Dene-Yeniseian is seriously discussed but not generally accepted; Dene-Caucasian is rejected by the vast majority of scholars.
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Re: The Status of Dene-Caucasian and Dene-Yeniseian
Is Dene-Yeniseian no longer accepted? Did something happen?
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Re: The Status of Dene-Caucasian and Dene-Yeniseian
Wikipedia says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dené–Caucasian_languages
"A narrower connection specifically between North American Na-Dené and Siberian Yeniseian (the Dené–Yeniseian languages hypothesis) was proposed by Edward Vajda in 2008, and has met with some acceptance within the community of professional linguists. The validity of the rest of the family, however, is viewed as doubtful or rejected by nearly all historical linguists.[1][2][3][4][5]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dené–Caucasian_languages
"A narrower connection specifically between North American Na-Dené and Siberian Yeniseian (the Dené–Yeniseian languages hypothesis) was proposed by Edward Vajda in 2008, and has met with some acceptance within the community of professional linguists. The validity of the rest of the family, however, is viewed as doubtful or rejected by nearly all historical linguists.[1][2][3][4][5]"
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Re: The Status of Dene-Caucasian and Dene-Yeniseian
I don't know the general opinion, but I haven't found much written on the topic apart from Vajda's tbh.
I've read his thesis myself and I can't say I read very compelling evidence. It was rather disappointing how little detail there was actually. It isn't helped by Proto-Yeniseian and Proto-Na-Dene both being very limited in reconstruction so far, so you don't exactly have much to compare between the two.
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