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yeniseian

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Na-Dene and Yeniseian languages are theorized to be part of a common family and the evidence is pretty good; they come respectively from America and Siberia.

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Quick take

A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.

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noun

A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.

noun

Proto-Yeniseian: the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.

noun

A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Yeniseian.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for yeniseian.

Example sentences

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Na-Dene and Yeniseian languages are theorized to be part of a common family and the evidence is pretty good; they come respectively from America and Siberia.

2

Your sentence makes it sound like Yeniseian languages are language isolates, but what is absolutely astounding is that Yeniseian languages seem to form a family with the Na-Dene languages of North America.

3

The theory that the Na-Dené languages are related to Yeniseian languages appears to be generally accepted, even if not considered fully proven.

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This is a live hypothesis for the Yeniseian languages, the Siberian languages that are most likely to be related to North American languages.

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The Yeniseian languages are very unlike other nearby languages.

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> Yeniseian (the originator of such words as Tengri, Kha(g)an, etc) being connected to Native American Apache language was pretty amazing.

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The Athabaskan languages (Slave, Gwich'in, Navajo = Dene, Apache, Chilcotin, and a host of others) have been shown by linguists to be probably related to the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia.

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My favorite (even more insane) extrapolation of this is the Dene-Caucasian language family, which proposes a common origin for Basque, Caucasian languages, Yeniseian languages, Chinese, Sumerian, and Navajo!

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> Yeniseian (the originator of such words as Tengri, Kha(g)an, etc) being connected to Native American Apache language was pretty amazing and evidence of the importance of paleo-linguistics in finding out informations about our ancestors This is a bit controversial, though.

Quote examples

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Sino-Tibetan and Afroasiatic are very large and very old, but not as controversial as Altaic; Austro-Tai and Dene-Yeniseian are classic "macrofamilies" in that they're positing old relations between different established language families, but they're increasingly accepted, at least as promising lines of research.

Proper noun examples

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Unfortunately the languages between the three (Caucasians, language isolates, Tibeto-Burman, Andamanese, Turko-Mongol-Yeniseian Altaic* sprachbund etc) are much more obscure.

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Dene-Yeniseian is a bit smaller but much more widely accepted proposed family.

3

The Ket language of central Siberia has long been believed to be isolate, but was later classified as a member of the Dene–Yeniseian language family (or at least proposed, afaik this research is still ongoing).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use yeniseian in a sentence?

Na-Dene and Yeniseian languages are theorized to be part of a common family and the evidence is pretty good; they come respectively from America and Siberia.

What does yeniseian mean?

A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.

What part of speech is yeniseian?

yeniseian is commonly used as noun, adjective.