Subdivision
As laid out by Greenberg (2000:279-81), the branches of Eurasiatic are:
- Etruscan
- Indo-European
- Uralic–Yukaghir
- Altaic
- Korean-Japanese-Ainu
- Gilyak (= Nivkh)
- Chukotian (= Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
- Eskimo–Aleut
These groupings, except for the first two, are the native languages in various parts of northeast Asia. Eskimo–Aleut is spoken across the subarctic region from northeast Asia to Greenland, and the Uralic languages are also spoken westward as far as Scandinavia and Hungary.
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