Some Notes About Dene-Caucasian

Ancient Connections of Sinitic

“…Dene-Yeniseian is the recentlydocumented language family which comprises Yeniseian in north central Siberia and the Na-Dene (ND) languages of northwest North America (Vajda 2010(Vajda , 2018; the ND languages were the last group to cross the area of the Bering Strait and enter North America from Siberia, presumably just before a major sea level rise circa 7K YBP which submerged the Berling Strait. An earlier but less well-supported proposal instead connects ST and the North Caucasian languages in the Sino-Caucasian linkage (Starostin [1984] 1991); some scholars (Bengtson 1991;Ruhlen 1994;Starostin 2012Starostin , 2017 combine the two linkages to include both ST/Dene-Yeniseian and North Caucasian and various other language isolates further west. This is not the place to recapitulate comparative linguistic methodology.…”

“…Various sources have listed many possible lexical cognates between ST and ND, including Shafer (1952Shafer ( , 1957Shafer ( , 1969, Nikolaev (1991), Bengtson (1991), andRuhlen (1994). Vajda (2010Vajda ( , 2013 identifies a large number of likely Yeniseian and ND cognates, some contested by Starostin (2012), who cites ST, North Caucasian, and Burusho alternatives.…”

Sümercenin Kökeni Hakkında Yeni Bir Öneri

“…Başka öneriler de sunulmuş ancak henüz geniş çapta yayınlanmamıştır (Kenanidis, 1992). Diğer önerilerin yanı sıra, ilgili yakınlıklar arasında Dené-Kafkas (Bengtson, 1997), Nostratik (Bomhard & Hopper, 1984), Tibeto-Burman (Braun, 2004) ve Ural (Parpola, 2007) dilleri bulunmaktadır. Elbette sakıncalı gerçekleri görmezden gelmenin ve/veya kanıt uydurmanın olağan olduğunun gözlemlendiği başka yerlerde (Farmer vd., 2004) Diğer bütün öneriler şimdiye kadar yaygın bir kabul görme konusunda az ya da çok başarısız olmuştur.…”