Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Joseph Greenberg shocked the linguistics world in 1987 by claiming all Native American languages belonged to just three families, sparking the fierce "Lumpers vs. Splitters" debate. We explore why his…
Long before 1492, the Americas were a kaleidoscope of linguistic diversity. The controversial "three-wave" migration theory attempts to explain this by classifying hundreds of Indigenous languages into three major families—Eskimo-Aleut,…