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The Eurasiatic languages are a hypotetical language group from which allegedly descend several language families of Europe and Asia, including Indo-European languages, Uralic and Altaic. It was developed by Joseph Greenberg. The theory was rejected by many linguists, mainly due to the controversial method used, mass lexical comparison. The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... Geographical distribution of Finnic, Ugric, Samoyed and Yukaghir languages The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. ... Altaic is a putative language family which would include 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around central Asia. ... Joseph Greenberg may refer to one of The linguist Joseph H. Greenberg The director of Yiddish-language films, better known as Joseph Green This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Mass lexical comparison or mass comparison is a controversial method developed by the Joseph H. Greenberg to find genetic relationships among languages in the remote past, beyond the limits of the traditional comparative method, or in situations where there are too many languages to practically apply the latter without many...


Greenberg's list of Eurasistic languages includes:

The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... Etruscan was a language spoken and written in the ancient region of Etruria (current Tuscany) and in what is now Lombardy (where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls), in Italy. ... Geographical distribution of Finnic, Ugric, Samoyed and Yukaghir languages The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. ... Geographical distribution of Yukaghir, Finnic, Ugric and Samoyedic languages The Yukaghir languages are a family of related languages spoken in Russia by the Yukaghir, a Siberian people, living in the basin of the Kolyma River. ... Altaic is a language family which includes 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and Far East. ... For the language spoken in Central Asia, see Aini language The Ainu language (アイヌ イタㇰ, Aynu Itak; Japanese: アイヌ語) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. ... The Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages are a language family of Siberia. ... Eskimo-Aleut (also called Inuit-Aleut, but both names are considered offensive by some) is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. ...

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Language Log: Professional Foolishness (1081 words)
Indo-European is shown as a daughter of Eurasiatic and a sister of Uralic and Altaic.
Eurasiatic in turn is shown as a subgroup of Nostratic, with Dravidian and Afro-Asiatic as the other subgroups.
Eurasiatic, Nostratic, and other such proposals have not been accepted because there is insufficient evidence that the similarities observed are not due to chance and because the possibility that they are due to borrowing rather than common descent has not been ruled out.
Eurasiatic languages at AllExperts (708 words)
Eurasiatic is a hypothetical macro-family proposed by the late Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America.
The Eurasiatic hypothesis is dismissed by many linguists, often on the ground that Greenberg relies in his research on mass lexical comparison, a method he developed in the 1950s that remains controversial.
It is also interesting that the group identified by Greenberg as Eurasiatic also has a number of similarties with the Boreal sub-group of the equally controversial Nostratic hypothesis.
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