"The Asian lineage leading to First Americans is the most anciently diverged, whereas the Asian lineages that contributed some of the DNA to
Eskimo-Aleut speakers and the Na-Dene-speaking Chipewyan from Canada are more closely related to present-day East Asian populations," Reich explained.
The
Eskimo-Aleut languages have advanced still further in the development of complex grammatical structures.
These challenging ideas resonated with a group of linguists, motivating them to gather a collection of 60 structural features and determine their essentially present occurrence or non-occurrence in languages ranging from Indo-European all the way to
Eskimo-Aleut. Their results (Klesment, Kunnap, Soosaar, Taagepera 2003) confirmed the existence of a distinct Uralic bloc but also gave some credence to the notion of a continuum.
This team of investigators grouped the mtDNA lineages of the Na-Dene,
Eskimo-Aleuts, and the Chukchi of Siberia into the Circumarctic people and concluded that the Na-Dene and
Eskimo-Aleuts crossed the Bering land bridge together during a rapid radiation of these Circumarctic people that occurred thousands of years after the Amerindian migration G.F.
The "keepers of the language" should be the language family - Algonquin, Athapaskan,
Eskimo-Aleut, Haida, Iroquoian, Hutenai, Salishan, Siouan, Tlingit, Wakashan.
The
Eskimo-Aleut group occupied the northernmost sections of North America; the Na-dene were just south of the
Eskimo-Aleuts; and American Indians populated the area south of the ancient ice sheets.
John Colonghi, director of the fund-raising campaign, is of
Eskimo-Aleut descent.
Their languages are classified as
Eskimo-Aleut (the latter for the inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands).
Eurasiatic, in turn, includes Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic, Yukaghir, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Gilyak, and
Eskimo-Aleut. In this two-volume work he applies a long-range comparative method in which phonemes, morphemes, and syntactic constructions from different languages are compared in order to establish genetic relationships and reconstruct ancestral form in an effort to reconstruct Proto-Nostratic.
Zegura, divided our Indigenous American peoples into three separate populations which he labels "Amerind," "Na-Dene" and "
Eskimo-Aleut." The Amerind group includes most of our nations from Canada through southernmost South America.
