Proposed name
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Proposal
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Status
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Agree
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Ref.
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Almosan
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Widely rejected
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Amerind
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All languages in the Americas which do not belong to the Eskimo–Aleut or Na–Dene families
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Widely rejected
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Altaic
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Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic (and possibly Ainu)
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Widely rejected; generally considered a Sprachbund
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Austronesian–Ongan
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Ongan and Austronesian
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Widely rejected
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Juliette Blevins (initiator)
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[1]
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Borean
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All families except in sub-Saharan Africa, New Guinea, Australia, and the Andaman Islands
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Widely rejected
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Coahuiltecan
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Native languages of modern Texas
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Sprachbund
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Dene–Caucasian
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Na-Dené, North Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian, and others.
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Widely rejected
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Dravido-Korean
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Dravidian and Koreanic
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Obsolete
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Elamo-Dravidian
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Elamite and Dravidian
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Widely rejected
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Eurasiatic
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Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic
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Widely rejected
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Indo-Pacific
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Several Pacific families.
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Widely rejected
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Indo-Semitic
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Indo-European languages and Semitic languages or Afroasiatic languages
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Widely rejected
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Khoisan
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African click-consonant languages that do not belong to any other macrophyla
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Widely rejected
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Macro-Mayan
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Mayan with Totonacan, Mixe–Zoque, and Huave
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Widely rejected
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Mosan
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Salishan, Wakashan, and Chimakuan languages of Pacific Northwest North America
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Sprachbund
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Nostratic
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Afroasiatic, Kartvelian, Dravidian and Eurasiatic
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Widely rejected
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Ural–Altaic
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Uralic and Altaic
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Obsolete; considered a linguistic convergence zone
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Sino-Uralic
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Uralic, Sinitic
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?
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Jingyi Gao (initiator)
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