Linguist Explores Language Origins

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A Deep Dive May Have Solved the Mysterious Origin of America's Earliest Language

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Johanna Nichols is a pioneer in the field of linguistic typology, which organizes world languages by how many criteria they share from an overall list.

She found significant evidence that the first languages of North America can be traced back to two very different language groups from Siberia .

People brought languages with them from Siberia in two chunks, about 24,000 and 15,000 years ago .

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