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| the romance languages of today are derived from what language? |
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| the first language spoken by Homo Sapiens, perhaps as long as 200,000 years ago was? |
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| the language in which ancient Indian religious and literary texts were written was? |
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| the predecessor of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit was? |
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| according to the conquest theory, the Proto-indo european homeland lies somewhere north of the? |
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| according to the agricultural hypothesis of the spread of the proto-indo european language, the source region for proto-indo european is? |
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| if the agricultural hypthesis of the spread of the proto-indo european language is correct, it would mean that the agricultural frontier advanced every generation approximatley how far? |
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| while many scholars have investigated ancient languages, scholars from one country in particular have been in the forefront of such research. This country is? |
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| this is the ancestral language for what other language families? |
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| two russian scholars have established the core of what they belive is a pre-proto-indo european language named? |
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| the current language map of the americas is dominated by what language family? |
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| estimates of the maximum size of the pre-columbian population of the americas put the figure at? |
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| while some 40 languages families have been reconized in the Old World, how many Native American language famalies have been identified? |
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| linguist joseph greenberg proposes that there are only 3 what? |
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| indiggenous american language families |
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| the oldest, largest, and most widely distributed of the indigenous american language families proposed by Joseph Greenberg is? |
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| the ultimate resolution to the problem of american language families will come from? |
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| careful reconstruction of individual languages |
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| given the modest numbers of pre-columbian peoples in the americas and their recent arrival, one would assume that the linguistic situation should be fairly simple because: |
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| there were no pre exsisting peoples to be absorbed nd no life ways to be transformed |
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| an ancestral languages gave rise to the Austro-Tai family of languages and out of this family arose |
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| language dispersal in europe west of the russian plains was long supported by a majority of archeologist, linguist, and human geographers |
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| if it is possible to deduce a large part of the vocab of on excint language, it may feasible to go even further and re-create the language that preceded it. this technnique is? |
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| family of languages, who are still concetrated along arctic and near artic shores. last speakers to arive in north america |
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| was a discrete malayo-polynesian offshoot |
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| the basis process of language formation over time and space |
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| lagnuages of traditional, numerically smaller, and technologically less advanced peoples have been replaced, or greatly modified, by the languages of invaders |
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| caused long-isolated languages to make contact |
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| the nest oldest, next largests, but much less widley diffused family |
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| the diversificatin of languages has long been charted through analysis of? |
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| opposed to the conquest theory |
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| in New Zealand, Maori people speak this language |
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