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Classification of American Indian Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Franz Boas
Franz Boas*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
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Abstract

[The author points out cases in which contiguous languages, though different in structure and vocabulary, exhibit in common striking morphologic peculiarities that must have spread by borrowing from language to language. A simple genealogical classification cannot therefore adequately represent the development, but ‘hybridization’ must also be taken into account.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 5 , Issue 1-Part1 , March 1929, pp. 1 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © 1929 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 American Anthropologist 22. 367-76.

2 Handbook of American Languages 2. 383.