From the Dhaulagiri to Lappland, the Americas and Oceania

• Main Authors: van Driem, George, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mewar University 2014
• Subjects: History and Archaeology; Lappland; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20824

The myths of a Mongoloid race and a Sino-Tibetan language family tree still survive in modern discourse. Both paradigms are false and historically rooted in 'scientific' racism. The two myths must be abandoned. The history of linguistics is strewn with false 'Sino' theories that...