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Dene-Yeniseian

Progress and unanswered questions

 | Western Washington University
Published online: 12 July 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.18001.vaj
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Paleo-Eskimo connection
  • 3.Morphological homologies and mismatches
  • 4.Lexical cognates and problems of Dene-Yeniseian phonology
  • 5.Lateral affricates
  • 6.The origin of Na-Dene glottalized consonants
  • 7.Labialized velars
  • 8.Summary
  • Note
  • References
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