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DescriptionBoreanLanguageTree.png	English: Near Complete Phylogenetic Tree of Borean Language Families Based on Data from Ethnologue, and the data of Sergei Starostin. Borean is composed according to Sergei Starostin is as follows: "Borean" Nostratic (speculative, w:Holger Pedersen 1903) Afroasiatic (widely recognized family), inclusion of Omotic debated. Eurasiatic (speculative, w:Joseph Greenberg 2000), c.f. Indo-Uralic Indo-European (widely recognized family) Uralic (widely recognized family) Macro-Altaic (controversial; w:Roy Andrew Miller 1971, w:Gustaf John Ramstedt 1952, w:Matthias Castrén 1844), "Macro-Altaic" has less scholarly acceptance than "Micro-Altaic" or Altaic proper, uniting only Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic Turkic (widely recognized family) Mongolic (widely recognized family) Tungusic (widely recognized family) Korean (language isolate) Paleosiberian (phylogenetic unity widely rejected) Nivkh, placed under Palaeo-Siberian by Starostin, not always included even within Nostratic Eskimo–Aleut Yukaghir (sometimes grouped with Uralic) Chukotko-Kamchatkan Kartvelian (widely recognized family Dravidian (widely recognized family) Dene-Daic (speculative, Starostin 2005) Dené–Caucasian (speculative, Nikolayev 1991; expanded by Bengtson 1997), c.f. Dené–Yeniseian (w:Edward Vajda 2008) Na-Dené (widely recognized family) Basque (language isolate) Sino-Caucasian (speculative, Starostin 2006) Sino-Tibetan (widely recognized family) North Caucasian (speculative unification of East Caucasian and West Caucasian, Nikolayev & Starostin 1994) Yeniseian (widely recognized family) w:Burushaski (language isolate) Austric (speculative, Wilhelm Schmidt 1906) Austroasiatic (widely recognized family) Miao–Yao (widely recognized family) w:Austro-Tai (speculative, Paul Benedict 1942) Austronesian (widely recognized family) Japonic (widely recognized family) Tai–Kadai (widely recognized family) .
Date	29 September 2013, 19:58:06
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Author	Abrahamic Faiths

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current	01:30, 18 May 2019	6,018 × 2,788 (887 KB)	Neutral0814	fix Demonic → Demotic & recompressed with pngout; reduced by 216kb (19% decrease)
	15:21, 17 May 2019	6,018 × 2,788 (581 KB)	Neutral0814	Reverted to version as of 15:29, 21 March 2017 (UTC): bad edit; uncompressed, off-centered, & artifact
	22:30, 22 May 2017	6,018 × 2,788 (2.11 MB)	Elinruby	this file spells demotic correctly ~~~~
	15:29, 21 March 2017	6,018 × 2,788 (581 KB)	Christian140	Reverted to version as of 12:50, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
	00:39, 1 March 2017	6,018 × 2,788 (1.16 MB)	Kumasojin 熊襲	2017
	12:50, 27 September 2016	6,018 × 2,788 (581 KB)	Cmdrjameson	Compressed with pngout. Reduced by 606kB (51% decrease).
	03:38, 30 September 2013	6,018 × 2,788 (1.16 MB)	Abrahamic Faiths	Fix Missing Line
	03:34, 30 September 2013	6,018 × 2,788 (1.16 MB)	Abrahamic Faiths	Minor Fixes
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