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51Nostratic languages — Nostratic (controversial) Geographic distribution: Europe, Asia except for the southeast, North and Northeast Africa, the Arctic Linguistic classification: Borean (?) …
52Morris Swadesh — (January 22, 1909 July 20, 1967) was an influential and controversial American linguist. In his work, he applied basic concepts in historical linguistics to the Indigenous languages of the Americas. In Europe there was a very clear example of… …
53Recent African origin of modern humans — One model of human migration based on Mitochondrial DNA In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans is t …
54String figure — A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one s fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet. They may consist of singular …
55Curthoys — is a relatively uncommon surname, thought to derive from South West England. It is believed to have roots in Norman or French expatriates from the 10th century onwards. The origin of the surname remains unclear one argument is that the name is an …
56James M. Stayer — (born 1935) is a historian specializing in the German Reformation, particularly the anabaptist movement. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Queen s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Stayer received… …
57Egyptomania — is a concept that describes the Western fascination with ancient Egyptian culture and history. Although this fascination goes back to a time immediately following the pharaonic period, Egyptomania specifically refers to the renewed interest in… …
58Borean languages — Borean is a proposed language family that would include most of the languages of Eurasia and northern Africa and some or all of the languages of the Americas. The family was suggested by Sergei Starostin. It is named after the northern hemisphere …
59Paleolinguistics — is a term used by some linguists for the study of the distant human past by linguistic means. For most historical linguists there is no separate field of paleolinguistics. Those who use the term are generally advocates of hypotheses not generally …
60Polygenesis (linguistics) — Polygenesis is a linguistic theory concerned with the origin of individual natural languages, holding that they come into being not by means of a linear progression from an ancestor language, but by input from one or more. Proponents of… …
