Language dispersal from the Black Sea region

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 775-796

  Nichols, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Afroasiatic; Caucasus; Indo European; language extinction; language family; language spread; linguistic diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949161954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_32     Document Type: Chapter

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