''Mother Tongue'' is an annual
academic journal
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published by the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP) that has been published since 1995.
''Mother Tongue'' archives
Its goal is to encourage international and interdisciplinary information sharing, discussion, and debate among geneticists
A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a scientist or a lecturer. Geneticists may perform general research on genetic processes ...
, paleoanthropologists, archaeologists, and historical linguists on questions relating to the origin of language and ancestral human spoken languages. This includes, but is not limited to, discussion of linguistic macrofamily
In historical linguistics, a macrofamily, also called a superfamily or phylum, is a proposed genetic relationship grouping together language families (also isolates) in a larger scale classification. Campbell, Lyle and Mixco, Mauricio J. (2007), ' ...
hypotheses.
See also
*'' Journal of Language Relationship''
References
External links
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Historical linguistics journals
Annual journals
Paleolinguistics
Publications established in 1995
English-language journals
Publications disestablished in 2005
Paleoanthropology
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