Sino-Caucasian

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Sino-Caucasian is a pre-form of the Eurasian-North American macro-family Dene-Caucasian , founded by Sergei Anatoljewitsch Starostin in 1984 , which consists of Sinotibetic , North Caucasian and Yenisei . With the addition of the Na-Dené languages , Sino-Caucasian was expanded to Dene-Caucasian.

For all further information see the article Dene-Caucasian .

Sino-Caucasian family

literature

  • The journal Mother Tongue regularly covers Deno-Caucasian topics. The articles in issues I - V (1995–1999) are particularly important.
  • SA Starostin: Gipoteza o genetičeskij svjazjax sinotibetskix jazykov s enisejskimi i severnokavkazskimi jazykami. Moscow 1984.
  • Vitaly Shevoroshkin (Ed.): Dene-Sino-Caucasian Languages. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1991.
    (Contains the English translation of Starostin's original Russian article on Sino-Caucasian from 1984 and the article Sino-Caucasian Languages ​​in America by Sergei L. Nikolajew , in which the Na-Dené languages ​​are added to Sino-Caucasian .)
  • Vitaly Shevoroshkin and Alexis Manaster Ramer: Some Recent Work in the Remote Relations of Languages. In: Sydney M. Lamb and E. Douglas Mitchell (Eds.): Sprung from Some Common Source. Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages. Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.) 1991.