Uralo-Eskimo?

Language Sciences, 1991

Études/Inuit/Studies, 2000

Études/Inuit/Studies, 2000

C.C. Uhlenbeck was a Dutch linguist especially known for his work on comparative Indo-European linguistics, Basque and the Blackfoot Algonquian language. However, he also made some groundbreaking contributions to the comparative linguistic study of the Eskimo-Aleut family. Uhlenbeck was the first to suggest that the Eskimo language family and the Aleut language represent daughter branches of a common ancestor. Also, he was the first who approached the possible relationships between the Eskimo-Aleut language family and the Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic language families in a systematic manner in publications. His work attracted the attention of Eskimologists like Bergsland, Fortescue, Hammerich and Thalbitzer, and it put these long-distance comparative issues on the research agenda. Uhlenbeck never did any fieldwork on Eskimo-Aleut and his work is based entirely on sources written by others. His Eskimo-Aleut work is not generally known, since, being written mainly in Dutch, it is ...

A sucking calf under the ox: “The Turkic Tracks in an Eskimo Language” Öküzün Altında Aranan Buzağı: “Bir Eskimo Dilinde Türkçenin İzleri”

Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Across Alaska, the popularity of indigenous forms of dance has risen, particularly in indigenous communities in which English dominates the heritage languages and Native youth have become monolingual English speakers. Some indigenous people say that Native dance accompanied by indigenous song is a way of preserving their endangered languages. With two case studies from Alaskan Eskimo communities, Yupiget on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Barrow, this article explores how use of endangered languages among Alaskan Eskimos is related to the activity of performing Eskimo dance. I suggest that practice of Eskimo dancing and singing that local people value as an important linguistic resource can be considered as a de-globalised sociolinguistic phenomenon, a process of performance and localisation in which people construct a particular linguistic repertoire withdrawn from globalisable circulation in multilingualism.

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

2016

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2020

See also: Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen 45, 978-3-96769-171-9 -- Natalia Pimenova: Prähistorische Kontakte der Eskimo-Aleutischen und austronesischen Sprachen: sprachliche Zeugnisse im „altaischen“ und „uralo-sibirischen“ Kontext The Eskimo–Aleut languages are believed to represent a separate prehistoric migration of people from Asia. The more credible proposals on the external relations and prehistoric contacts of Eskimo–Aleut concern one or more of the language families of northern Eurasia. The two serious genetic hypotheses are (1) 'Uralo-Siberian'/'Altaic' or more inclusively (2) 'Nostratic' ('Eurasiatic'). The comparative word list provides data for connections between Eskimo- Aleut and Austronesian languages. The Part I contains canonical comparisons: those with one-to-one sound correspondences/with one other final sound in PE (only in words with the uncontroversial PAN stops and sonants *p, *t, *k, *q, *m, *n + *l, *ŋ) or with regular sound correspondences (PAN *S – PE *c, PAN *s – PE *c, PAN CeC > Yupik CeC, Inupik CiC) and identical or close semantics. Examples: PAN *sekel 'bend, bow' - PE *cikə- 'to bend down, to lower', PAN *sukud 'walking stick, cane, staff' - PE *cuka- 'post, pole', PMP *akaR 'root' - PE *aku 'root of a plant’. The Part II contains canonical comparisons: those with one-to-one sound correspondences (or with regular sound correspondences) in initial clusters CVC(V) (in words with AN *p, *t, *k, *q-, *m, *n, *S , *c + *-l-, *-ŋ- + *b, *-y-) and identical or close semantics. We can explain the lexical similarities as a result of language convergence (convergence of proto-languages or convergence with peripheral prehistoric Austronesian subgroups with PAN *S > *s or before PAN *S > PMP *h). Revisited version: + №62

The goal of this contribution is twofold: on the one hand, to review two relatively recent contributions in the field of Eskimo-Aleut historical linguistics in which it is proposed that Eskimo-Aleut languages are related genealogically to Wakashan (Holst 2004) and?/or Nostratic (Krougly-Enke 2008). These contributions can be characterized by saying that their authors have taken little care to be diligent and responsible in the application of the comparative method, and that their familiarity with the languages involved is insufficient. Eskimo-Aleut languages belong to a very exclusive group of language families that have been (and still are) used, sometimes compulsively, in the business of so-called “long-range comparisons”. Those carrying out such studies are very often unaware of the most basic facts regarding the philological and linguistic traditions of those languages, as a result of what mountains of very low quality works with almost no-relevancy for the specialist grow every year to the desperation of the scientific community, whose attitude toward them ranges from the most profound indifference to the toughest (and most explicit) critical tone. Since Basque also belongs to this group of “compare-with-everything-you-come- across” languages, it is my intention to provide the Basque readership with a sort of “pedagogical case” to show that little known languages, far from underrepresented in the field, already have a very long tradition in historical and comparative linguistics, i.e. nobody can approach them without previous acquaintance with the materials.

2020

See also: Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen 45, 978-3-96769-171-9 -- Natalia Pimenova: Prähistorische Kontakte der Eskimo-Aleutischen und austronesischen Sprachen: sprachliche Zeugnisse im „altaischen“ und „uralo-sibirischen“ Kontext The Eskimo–Aleut languages are believed to represent a separate prehistoric migration of people from Asia. The more credible proposals on the external relations and prehistoric contacts of Eskimo–Aleut concern one or more of the language families of northern Eurasia. The two serious genetic hypotheses are (1) 'Uralo-Siberian'/'Altaic' or more inclusively (2) 'Nostratic' ('Eurasiatic'). The comparative word list below provides data for connections between Eskimo- Aleut and Austronesian languages. It consists of comparisons of Proto-Eskimo (PE) or Proto-Eskimo-Aleut (PEA) and Proto-Austronesian (PAN) or Proto- Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) words. The Part I contains canonical comparisons: those with one-to-one sound correspondences/with one other final sound in PE (only in words with the uncontroversial PAN stops and sonants *p, *t, *k, *q, *m, *n + *l, *ŋ) or with regular sound correspondences (PAN *S – PE *c, PAN *s – PE *c, PAN CeC > Yupik CeC, Inupik CiC) and identical or close semantics. Examples: PAN *sekel 'bend, bow' - PE *cikə- 'to bend down, to lower', PAN *sukud 'walking stick, cane, staff' - PE *cuka- 'post, pole', PMP *akaR 'root' - PE *aku 'root of a plant'