The Origin Of Language by Merritt Ruhlen
Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue
Presents a controversial case that all human languages descend from a single ancestral tongue, using long-range comparison and proposed global etymologies to group languages into macrofamilies. It integrates linguistic patterns with evidence from archaeology and genetics to trace deep-time relationships and human dispersal, addresses common criticisms of the approach, and defends mass comparison as a viable tool for reconstruction.
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- 1994
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- American
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- 270-300
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- English
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