{"id":591,"date":"2008-03-04T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=591"},"modified":"2008-03-04T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T21:43:00","slug":"does-ket-belong-to-na-dene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/does-ket-belong-to-na-dene\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Ket belong to Na-Den\u00e9?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/issues\/19\/19-717.html\">posting on Linguist List<\/a> today, claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ket_language\">Ket<\/a> is related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Na-Dene\">Na-Den\u00e9<\/a> languages.  A few extracts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vajda shows that the abstract forms of lexical and grammatical morphemes and the rules of composition of the Ket verb find systematic and numerous parallels in the Na-Dene protolanguage reconstructed to account for the modern Tlingit and Eyak languages and the Athabaskan language family (whose daughters include Gwich&#8217;in, Koyukon, Dena\u2019ina and others of Alaska, Hupa of California, and Navajo of the U.S. Southwest). [&#8230;] The comparison also shows conclusively that Haida, sometimes associated with Na-Dene, is not related.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It lists a long list of linguists who&#8217;re supportive, so it looks like it&#8217;s quite safe.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re really talking about huge distances here, by the way.  I&#8217;ve made a wee map using <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\">Google Maps<\/a> to demonstrate:<br \/>\n<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/nadene-759133.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/nadene-759133.png\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting posting on Linguist List today, claiming that Ket is related to the Na-Den\u00e9 languages. A few extracts: Vajda shows that the abstract forms of lexical and grammatical morphemes and the rules of composition of the Ket verb find systematic and numerous parallels in the Na-Dene protolanguage reconstructed to account for the modern Tlingit and Eyak languages and the Athabaskan language family (whose daughters include Gwich&#8217;in, Koyukon, Dena\u2019ina and others of Alaska, Hupa of California, and Navajo of the U.S. Southwest). [&#8230;] The comparison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}