There's a proposed connection between Indo-European and Eskimo-Aleut other than Nostratic?. From Wordnik.com. [Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person] Reference
Speakers of Cherokee say no-qui-si.xix And in West Greenlandic, an Eskimo-Aleut tongue, the word is ulluriaq. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
To add to the complication however, not all Eskimo-Aleut speaking peoples find the term Eskimo insulting at all4. From Wordnik.com. [A note about 'Inuit' and 'Eskimo'] Reference
Inuit, a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family that, via Danish, gave Global English the word kayak, now has fewer than fifty thousand speakers. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
With the health of Eskimo-Aleut terrain now at stake, is anyone entitled to discourage its inhabitants many already bilingual in Danish from acquiring competence in English?. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
We see in Uralic-Yukaghir, Chukchi-Kamchatkan and Eskimo-Aleut languages a shared theme of subjective-objective conjugation and again there are two different sets of endings that seem to be quite ancient e.g. From Wordnik.com. [A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system, part 2] Reference
With the exception of the Eskimo-Aleut family that straddles the Bering Strait and Aleutian Islands, this is "the first successful demonstration of any connection between a New World language and an Old World language," Nichols said. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
As a result, we would expect to see the ergative and absolutive pronouns eventually attached to verbs as affixes in a new subjective-objective conjugation as I believe could have happened in a hypothetical ancestor of Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic-Yukaghir, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut and Dravidian. From Wordnik.com. [A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system, part 2] Reference
But my favorite is this sample of Greenlandic branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language Inuktitut: Kinal uunniit pisinnaatitaaffinnik killilersugaanngitsumillu iliorsinnaatitaaffinnik nalunaarummi maani taaneqartunik tamanik atuuiumasinnaavoq, sukkulluunniit assigiinngisitsinertaqanngitsumik which is taken from an Eskimo weather report. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Many languages] Reference
Overall, I'm the most impressed in a very moderate sense by the Nostratic hypothesis as presented by Allan Bomhard who proposes that Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Eskimo-Aleut, Elamite, Dravidian, Sumerian, Kartvelian and Afro-Asiatic language families come from a parent language dated to about 15 000 BCE in a period following the last ice age. From Wordnik.com. [A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system] Reference
BTW, Tolkiendil seems to be right with his categorization of the Eskimo-Aleut languages, too. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
They belong to a linguistic stock termed Eskimo-Aleut (or ` Eskaleut '), named for its two major branches. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4] Reference
Amerind, Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference
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