We all know that German and English are relatives, this is evident. English and Russian are also related, this can be traced by simple comparative analysis. But English is also genetically related with Turkish, and this fact can only be shown by means of complicated linguistic research. This is the long-range comparison which allows us to discover distant relationship between languages and prove their descendance from a parent language which existed 15,000 years ago. In 1960s, the existence of the first of such parent languages was discovered and proven, called Nostratic.
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We are filling the archive with more materials on the languages of the Americas, and start publishing the articles of the fundamental "The Native Languages of America" volume issued in 1979.