What is it about?

Eskimo-Aleut is a well-established language family; but by closely looking at some problems in its reconstruction, we can see evidence of a complex prehistory, full of contact especially between neighboring Eskimo-Aleut languages.

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Why is it important?

It suggests a prehistory full of contact, migrations, and more, especially in the period about 1000 years ago

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This page is a summary of: Re-evaluating the reconstruction of Proto-Eskimo-Aleut, Journal of Historical Linguistics, December 2018, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jhl.17017.ber.
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