Tongue ties across continents draw fire
A controversial report concludes that a language family in Siberia and another in North America share a common origin in central Asia.
References:
Ruhlen, M. 1998. The origin of the Na-Dene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95(Nov. 10):13994.
Sources:
Merritt Ruhlen
Stanford University
Program in Human Biology
Stanford, CA 94305From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 20, November 14, 1998, p. 311. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.
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