Dené–Caucasian (controversial)

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Dené–Caucasian (controversial) is a hypothesized and widely disputed macrofamily that proposes a distant genetic relationship among several language families of Eurasia and North America, including Na-Dene.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dene–Caucasian 1
Dené–Caucasian (controversial) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf controversial linguistic hypothesis
hypothetical language macrofamily
alternativeName Dené–Caucasian (controversial)
surface form: Dene–Caucasian

Sino–Caucasian (in some formulations)
basedOn lexical comparison
morphological comparison
phonological comparison
classificationType macrofamily
controversy dispute over validity of long-range language comparison
criticizedFor insufficient application of the comparative method
lack of regular sound correspondences
use of mass lexical comparison
field historical linguistics
geographicScope Eurasia
North America
hasProposedMember Basque
surface form: Basque language

Burushaski isolate
Burushaski
surface form: Burushaski language

Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene family of North America

Na-Dene
surface form: Na-Dene languages

North Caucasian family of the Caucasus
North Caucasian languages
Sino-Tibetan family of Asia
Sino-Tibetan languages
Basque
surface form: Vasconic (Basque) languages

Yeniseian languages
surface form: Yeniseian family of Siberia

Yeniseian languages
involvesLanguageFamily Na-Dene
North Caucasian
Sino-Tibetan languages
surface form: Sino-Tibetan

Yeniseian languages
surface form: Yeniseian
involvesLanguageIsolate Basque
Burushaski
notAcceptedBy most comparative linguists
proposesGeneticRelationshipBetween Eurasian language families
North American language families
proposesLinkBetween Na-Dene and Yeniseian
Sino-Tibetan and North Caucasian
relatedHypothesis Dene–Yeniseian hypothesis
Sino-Caucasian hypothesis
researchFocus deep genetic relationships among language families
status highly controversial
widely rejected by mainstream historical linguists
subjectOf long-range comparison studies
timeDepth very great time depth beyond generally accepted limits

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Na-Dene hasProposedMacroFamily Dené–Caucasian (controversial)
Dené–Caucasian (controversial) alternativeName Dené–Caucasian (controversial)
subject surface form: Dené–Caucasian
this entity surface form: Dene–Caucasian