Eskimo-Aleut
Americannoun
adjective
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Plenty, as Sandra Bullock dodges flying space junk, wrestles with knotty parachute tethers, regrets her inability to speak Eskimo-Aleut, feels the G-force of explosive decompression, and splashes down into the primeval mud.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2015
With the exception of the Eskimo-Aleut language family of the American Arctic and the Na-Dene language family of Alaska, northwestern Canada, and the U.S.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Most linguists specializing in Native American languages do not discern large, clear-cut groupings other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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