New perspectives on the origin of languages
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | New perspectives on the origin of languages - Origin and Evolution of Languages |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Merritt Ruhlen; Stanford University; United States |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Linguistics; History of Languages |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | linguistics; origins of languages; evolution of languages |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics; P321-324.5 Etymology |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | We don’t often ask ourselves where languages come from because they just seem to be there: French in France, English in England, Chinese in China, Japanese in Japan, and so forth. Yet if we go back only a few thousand years none of these languages were spoken in their respective countries and indeed none of these languages existed anywhere in the world. Where did they all come from?We believe that traces of this first fully-modern language can still be perceived in the world’s contemporary languages and the two examples in Tables 3 and 4 are but a small portion of this evidence. If this hypothesis proves to be correct, then human language may turn out not only to support the ‘Out of Africa’ hypothesis, but to explain it as well. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-May-2008 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | theoretical and empirical study; case studies |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19034 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.19034 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Origin and Evolution of Languages |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | global |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |