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Tlingit, Navajo and Siberia...
From Seth Cable:
I wanted to briefly draw your attention to the fact that a truly historic result has just been publicly announced on Linguist List. It has now been more-or-less officially accepted that the Na-Dene languages (e.g., Tlingit, Eyak, Athabaskan) are genetically related to the Yeniseic languages of Siberia (e.g., Ket).
The result has been endorsed by a "who's who" of specialists (Krauss, Leer, Kari, Nichols, Comrie, etc.), following a special "crisis" workshop at UAF a couple weeks ago. They made an 'official announcement' on Linguist List.
This result is not only of importance to linguists working on these languages. Most exciting of all is the fact that this is the very first fully accepted American-Asian super-family, and was established using the fully rigorous methods of internal reconstruction (rather than the looser methods of 'mass-comparison').
Very Exciting Stuff!
[Thanks Seth!]