Mary LeCron Foster's 1992 presentations on correspondences between Old World and New World languages.
- Type
- Academic / Technical Report
- Source
- Mary LeCron Foster Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectReprintSecondary
- Reference
Mary LeCron Foster, "Old World Language in the Americas, 1," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, 1992 and "Old World Language in the Americas, 2," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Language Origins Society, Cambridge, England, 1992
- Scribe/Publisher
- Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts
- People
- Mary LeCron Foster
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
Linguistic reconstruction across hitherto postulated genetic boundaries demonstrates that Afro-Asiatic languages, and in particular ancient Egyptian, are genetically close, and possibly ancestral, to a group of geographically distant languages in both the Old and New Worlds. In the Old World these include Dravidian of southern India, Chinese, Malayo-Polynesian; and in the New World, Quechua of the Southern American Andes, and such Mesoamerican languages as Zoquean, Mayan, Zapotec, and Mixtec.
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