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Leopold von Schrenck

German zoologist
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  • Distribution of Paleo-Siberian languages.
    Paleo-Siberian languages
    / Lack of a genetic relationship

    …Baltic German zoologist and explorer Leopold von Schrenck surmised, in the middle of the 19th century, that they constituted the remnants of a formerly more widely dispersed language family that had been encroached upon by invading groups of Uralic and Altaic speakers. Schrenck’s hypothesis is quite correct to the extent…

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    …Baltic German zoologist and explorer Leopold von Schrenck surmised, in the middle of the 19th century, that they constituted the remnants of a formerly more widely dispersed language family that had been encroached upon by invading groups of Uralic and Altaic speakers. Schrenck’s hypothesis is quite correct to the extent…

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