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Yeniseian
Yeniseian meaning
A family of languages spoken in central Siberia. | Proto-Yeniseian: the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.
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Example sentences (3)
In 2008 Edward Vajda related Yeniseian to the Na-Dené languages of North America in a Dené–Yeniseian family.
Edward Sapir had commented on a connection between Na-Dené and Sino-Tibetan.sfn A narrower binary Dené–Yeniseian family has recently been well-received, though not conclusively demonstrated.
The Jie, another pastoral people, may have been a branch of the Xiongnu who may have been Yeniseian Vovin, Alexander.