The Asan or Assan were a Yeniseian speaking people in Siberia.
He has become known for his work on the proposed Dené–Yeniseian language family, seeking to establish that the Ket language of Siberia has a common linguistic ancestor with the Na-Dené languages of North America.
Ket, or more precisely Yeniseian as a whole, has been linked in a proposal to the Na-Dené languages of North America.
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It is known to be the last remnant of a small language subfamily, the Yeniseian languages, formerly spoken on the middle Yenisei and its tributaries.
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Several key papers in Alaskan anthropology have appeared in the journal, including Edward Vajda's 2010 paper on the Dene–Yeniseian hypothesis.
Dené–Caucasian (speculative, Nikolayev 1991; expanded by Bengtson 1997), c.f. Dené–Yeniseian (Edward Vajda 2008)
In February 2008 a proposal connecting Na-Dene (excluding Haida) to the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia into a Dené–Yeniseian family was published and well received by a number of linguists.
Karasuk languages, a hypothetical language family linking the Yeniseian languages and Burushaski