Mother Tongue (journal)

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Mother Tongue is the yearly periodical of the Association for the Study of Languages in Prehistory (ASLIP), appearing since 1995. Its focus is on the reconstruction of linguistic macrofamilies. Editor until 2003 was Harold C. Fleming, succeeded by Michael Witzel for the 2004 edition.

[edit] Topics

• Basque, Dene-Caucasian: 1995, 1999, 2005
• the Nahali and Kusunda language isolates: 1996, 1997, 2005
• Sumerian: 1997, 1999
• Yenisseian 1998
• Ainu: 1998
• "Austric" (Austro-Asiatic + Austronesian): 1999
• South Asian substrate: 1999
• African linguistics (Shabo, Ongota, Kadu): 2002, 2004
• Tasmanian: 2002
• Elamite: 2002
• North Caucasian: 2003
• South Khoisan: 2003
• Australian languages: 2004