<font face="georgia,serif">Words for 'canoe' point to long-lost family ties <br> <br>CANWEST NEWS SERVICE JULY 8, 2010<br>Canada<br> <br>An obscure language in Siberia has similarities to languages in North America, which might reshape history, writes Randy Boswell.<br>
<br>A new book by leading linguists has bolstered a controversial theory that the language of Canada's Dene Nation is rooted in an ancient Asian tongue spoken today by only a few hundred people in Western Siberia.<br>
<br>The landmark discovery, initially proposed two years ago by U.S. researcher Edward Vajda, represents the only known link between any Old World language and the hundreds of speech systems among First Nations in the Western Hemisphere<br>
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