Yeniseic

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And as early as 1923, other linguists speculated specifically about a genetic link between the Yeniseic family of languages spoken along the Yenisei River of which Ket is now the only surviving member and the Na-Dene family, spoken in North America.

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"Only Na-Dene languages have a system of verb prefixes that very closely resemble the Yeniseic," he said.

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His research links the Old World language family of Yeniseic in central Siberia with the Na-Dene family of languages in North America.

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For example, some words in the Na-Dene family likely represent sounds of the mother tongue more closely than their Yeniseic cognates.

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Other words in Yeniseic, however, are probably more archaic.

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The Yeniseic family includes the extinct languages Yugh, Kott, Assan, Arin, and Pumpokol.

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"I systematically connect these structures in Yeniseic with the structures in modern Na-Dene," Vajda said.

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Vajda established the Yeniseic-Na-Dene link by looking for languages with a verb-prefix system similar to those in Yeniseic languages.

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