“Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now”

“Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now” August 20, 2016

 

Uto-Aztecan language distribution before Columbus
The Pre-Contact distribution of North Uto-Aztecan languages. Please note that the Aztecs (a rather important component of the Uto-Aztecan group) are not shown on this map.
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

The transcript of Brian Stubbs’s presentation at the 2016 FairMormon conference is now up:

 

http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2016-fairmormon-conference/changes-languages-nephi-now

 

While I do a number of languages — including the professional teaching of a Semitic one — I don’t consider myself a linguist in the strict sense of the word.  Moreover, apart from the words tomato and chocolate, I know nothing of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

 

Thus, although I find the evidence plausible, I’m in no authoritative position to pronounce any kind of verdict on Brian Stubbs’s thesis.

 

I’ll say this, though:  If he’s right, the implications of his argument are huge.

 

Posted from Oslo, Norway

 

 


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