Uto-Aztecan comparative linguistics and etymological databases

Ilia Peiros (Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico, USA), ilia@santafe.edu)

Journal of Language Relationship, № 4, 2010 - p.90-116

Abstract: The paper presents a general survey of Uto-Aztecan historical studies. It discusses the genetic classification of the family, phonological reconstructions of individual daughter languages and of Proto-Uto-Aztecan itself. Lexical material used in the paper is taken from electronic databases created for the “Evolution of Human Languages” Project (Santa Fe Institute).

Keywords: Uto-Aztecan languages, lexicostatistics, comparative linguistics, etymological databases

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