Uralo-Siberian languages

Uralo - Siberian is a hypothetical macro family which was proposed by Michael Fortescue in his book Language Relations across Bering Strait in 1998. It represents an extension of the Ural- jukagirischen hypothesis is (see Uralic languages) and consists of the following language families:

• Uralic
• Jukagirisch
• Tschuktscho - Kamtschadalisch
• Eskimo - Aleut

Fortescue argues that the languages ​​of these families are very similar in their phonological and morphological structure and a number of grammatical morphemes in common. For example, select both Uralic and Eskimo - Aleut the plural * -t and the dual with * -k. The pronominal roots * the 1st person and * t - for 2nd person in all four families to find for m. Fortescue leads further 95 lexical correspondences to ( which, of course not overwhelmingly large number is, especially as contact phenomena can not be excluded ) and provides some sound correspondences between language families.

The Uralo - Siberian is a subset of the Eurasian according to Joseph Greenberg dar. It has long been known that these common morphemes and lexemes are spread over the to Uralo -Siberian belonging language families also, so the approach Uralo - Siberian does not seem to go far enough.