Amerind All West Classic 2019

Map of the area of Amerind languagesAmerind is a hypothetical proposed by in 1960 and elaborated by his student. Greenberg proposed that all of the belong to one of three, the previously established and, and with everything else—otherwise classified by specialists as belonging to dozens of independent families—as Amerind. Due to a large number of methodological flaws in the 1987 book Language in the Americas, the relationships he proposed between these languages have been rejected by the majority of historical linguists as spurious.The term Amerind is also occasionally used to refer broadly to the various without necessarily implying that they are a group. To avoid ambiguity, the term Amerindian is often used for the latter meaning.

Map of the area of Amerind languagesAmerind is a hypothetical proposed by in 1960 and elaborated by his student. Greenberg proposed that all of the belong to one of three, the previously established and, and with everything else—otherwise classified by specialists as belonging to dozens of independent families—as Amerind. Due to a large number of methodological flaws in the 1987 book Language in the Americas, the relationships he proposed between these languages have been rejected by the majority of historical linguists as spurious.The term Amerind is also occasionally used to refer broadly to the various without necessarily implying that they are a group. To avoid ambiguity, the term Amerindian is often used for the latter meaning.