Words for 'canoe' point to long-lost family ties (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Words for 'canoe' point to long-lost family ties

CANWEST NEWS SERVICE JULY 8, 2010
Canada

An obscure language in Siberia has similarities to languages in North
America, which might reshape history, writes Randy Boswell.

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.

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

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