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...as forming a family. In 1883 a French philologist, Hyacinthe de Charencey, divided Uto-Aztecan into Oregonian (=Shoshonean) and Mexican (=Sonoran), and, in 1891, in the United States, anthropologist Daniel Brinton recognized Shoshonean and divided the Sonoran division (of this article) into Nahuatlan (=Nahuan) and Sonoran (=the Sonoran of this article minus Nahuan). Brinton’s division was...
in South American Indian languages: Classification of the South American Indian languages )There have been many linguistic classifications for this area. The first general and well-grounded one was that by U.S. anthropologist Daniel Brinton (1891), based on grammatical criteria and a restricted word list, in which about 73 families are recognized. In 1913 Alexander Chamberlain, an anthropologist, published a new classification in the United States, which remained standard for several...
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