Kaingang and Austronesian : Similarities between Geographically Distant Languages (Pericliev 2009)

Autor:	Pericliev, Vladimir
Data:	2009
Título:	Kaingang and Austronesian : Similarities between Geographically Distant Languages
Detalhes:	Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Language (2009). Papers selected from 18th Intl. Congr. Ling. (Seoul, 2008) p. 875-892

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The paper shows that significant similarities exist between two geographically distant
language families: the Kaingang family, comprising Xokleng and Kaingang, spoken in South
Eastern Brazil, on the Atlantic, and Austronesian, spoken in the Pacific. These similarities
pertain to kinship semantic patterns, structural features and lexicon. In the paper, I sketch
kinship and grammatical similarities and discuss in more detail the lexicon, paying special
attention to various modes of arguing for significant similarity. One plausible explanation of
the results found is a distant relationship between these families, a conclusion corroborated
also by some extralinguistic facts. If such a hypothesis turns out to be true, one important
implication would be some prehistoric contact between these distant parts of the world.

Keywords: Austronesian-Kaingang relationship hypothesis, Oceanic and South American
contacts, language prehistory and classification, languages and migrations.

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