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Some digging led me to this theory, which is the root of this relationship. There's a proposed language family uniting an otherwise isolated family of Siberian
by ajross 4y ago
Some digging led me to this theory, which is the root of this relationship. There's a proposed language family uniting an otherwise isolated family of Siberian languages with the large Na-Dene language family of North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C3%A9%E2%80%93Yeniseian_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C3%A9%E2%80%93Yeniseian_la...
The bit about "khan" seems less interesting and mostly unrelated. The Mongolian word happens to be a loan word from some ancestral Yenesian language, I guess?
- qiskit 4y agoWhat's interesting is that most native american language and most siberian-descended/adjacent languages are agglutinative. From finnish to turkish to korean/japanese, it's agglutinative. Of course there are agglutinative languages in africa, etc. But I always found it interesting that languages with ties to siberia are mostly agglutinative.
- mjan22640 4y agoAll languages in the world are agglutinative, except afroasiatic and indoeuropean. These two families share a few more unique features in addition to the inflection.