Are the Major Agglutinative Languages Genetically Related?  

Oleh:

Hakola, H.P.A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 4 (1989), page 367-394.
Fulltext: 11_04_Hakola.pdf (1.67MB)

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One representative was chosen from each of the five large families of agglutinative languages: Finnish from the Uralic, Tamil from the Dravidian, Mongol from the Altaic, Japanese from the Japanese-Korean, and Quechua (the dialect of Ayacucho) from the Andean-Equatorial family. Applying Bender’s method of counting the number of accidental CVC and CV correspondences it was found that each of the ten comparison pairs formed of these five languages had much more similarity between the basic vocabularies of a hundred words than would have been possible by mere chance. This finding was considered to support the hypothesis that these five language families were mutually related. For the hypothetical superfamily the author proposes the name DURALJAN. The assumption is advanced that the division of this family was connected with a cultural expansion which may have taken place either in the Late Paleolithic Age or the Neolithic Age. Further studies are called for

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