[SunkenCiv]

Indigenous Americans, illustrated here during a mammoth hunt, developed their diverse languages from 4 different population waves that came over from Siberia, a new study suggests.

Image credit: Dorling Kindersley ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

[rktman]

But, but, but they say they’ve always been here.

[dfwgator]

Great. Now Putin will claim that America belongs to Russia.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It was thoughtful of Ogg and his family to leave tape recordings of their language 15,000 years ago.

[Reily]

With each contact they threw bon-bons at each other and had drum circle competition!

[marktwain]

Grizzly bears a relatively latecomers to North America south of Canada.

They arrived about 12-13 thousand years ago.

Grizzly bears are essentially an exotic species to North America south of Canada, and the glaciers kept them from most of Canada until about 13,000 years ago as well.

Humans were here long before the grizzly bear.

[Bonemaker]

There will be a lot more waves coming over from Siberia if Biden is reelected.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

And which language did these long dead people tell this linguist about their migrations?

[butlerweave]

Guessing again ?

[PIF]

Since, most if not all, humans were wiped out in the catastrophe that killed off the megafauna, how do the “linguists” know what languages they spoke. Just ask a member of the Clovis peoples what language they spoke before they all died.

[faithhopecharity]

Most scientific reports identify entry and settlement from northeast Asia at about 13,000 years ago plus or minus. Is there evidence for a24000 year entry?

[chajin]

If you’re in Siberia and end up in America, you must have lost your Bering.

And if it takes 12,000 years, the one thing you cannot be accused of is Russian.

Serious question: Since there was no writing, how can the linguists be sure that the language spoken 12,000 or 24,000 years ago bears any resemblance to today’s indigenous languages?

[KingLudd]

a cunning linguist

[jerod]

[zeestephen]

Based on known genetic mutation rates, laboratory science says that the first North Americans arrived 15,000 to 18,000 years ago.

Also - from memory - there are currently no fossilized human remains in North America that date back further than the 15,000 to 18,000 year time period.

However, there are alleged human foot prints, alleged human tools and tool artifacts, and alleged cut marks on animal bones, that do date back to about 24,000 years ago.

[Rummyfan]

Further linguistic analysis indicated that people arrived in the Americas in four distinct waves. The first occurred around 24,000 years ago, when massive glaciers covered much of North America. Nichols found no unique language features, suggesting a diverse set of people and languages entered North America at that time. A second wave of people around 15,000 years ago brought languages with n-m pronouns, while a third wave 1,000 years later brought languages with simple consonants. A fourth wave around 12,000 years ago then brought complex consonants.

Now what data was analyzed to come to these conclusions? Language artifacts from people who had no written records and whose only permanent records are crude drawings?!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A fifth wave came starting about 500 years ago, bringing languages with written histories, mathematics, literature, religion, logic, law, art, and civilization.

[redfreedom]

A study from Berkeley is all one really needs to see to prove this is faked BS.

Now for the content, just how does Nichols know anything at all about the linguistics of 12,000 to 24,000 years ago? Did this ancient people leave some tape recordings behind? Did they find a few frozen folks in glaciers, thaw them out and interrogate them?

[Flavious_Maximus]

“...occurred around 24,000 years ago, when massive glaciers covered much of North America...”

And then the glaciers melted, thanks to all those cars driven by the cavemen. /spit