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This article reports on the peculiar distribution of languages lacking lexical differentiation for the concepts âsunâ and âmoonâ, i.e., languages that express both concepts with the same term or use terms that share lexical material. The phenomenon is largely confined to the Americas, but it is also found in indigenous languages of northeastern Eurasia (âPaleosiberianâ languages) and languages of New Guinea. A representative sample of the worldâs languages indicates that the areal distribution of the phenomenon is strongly correlated with the large and old Circum-Pacific language area, and it is argued that it can be interpreted as a historical marker that bears witness to the common history of these languages.
Anthropological Linguistics – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 15, 2010
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