Evolution of Human Languages

An international project on the linguistic prehistory of humanity
coordinated by the Santa Fe Institute
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Evolution of Human Languages - Main Research Focus Areas

Database Construction for World Language Families (Merritt Ruhlen)

Reconstruction of Proto-Khoisan (George Starostin)

Reconstruction of Proto-Altaic (S. Starostin/A. Dybo/O. Mudrak)

Reconstruction of Afro-Asiatic (A. Militaryov/O. Stolbova)

Taxonomy and Genetic Relationships Between Indo-Pacific Languages (Timothy Usher)

The Dene-Caucasian Hypothesis (J. Bengtson/S. Starostin)