Ethnolinguistics

Ethnolinguistics referred to the discussion of linguistic issues in the ethnographic context.

It usually is understood as two different approaches:

This investigation is based on the assumption that language change at a constant rate over time. Due to the linguistic study of all known indigenous languages ​​of the Americas and an analysis of those differences let yourself recognize when the languages ​​- and thus the individual nations - have separated. The results thus obtained could be relatively accurately verify with the known dating of archaeological finds.

• Ethnology
• Applied Linguistics