一些外国语言学家认为汉语 不属于 Eurasiastic family (包括印-欧语、阿尔泰语等),倒和西班牙一种什么Basque语同属 dene-caucasian family. 这是相关链接:faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/articles/mothertongue.html Research on American languages is also throwing light on a longstanding linguistic mystery in Europe--as well as testifying to the remarkable wanderlust of ancient humans. Linguists have long wondered about the origins of Basque, a language spoken in the north of Spain that is one of the few non-Indo-European languages on the Continent. Soviet linguists have uncovered evidence that Basque is related to Na-Dene, and that both languages are part of yet another language macrofamily that includes tongues ranging from Chinese to the ancient Mediterranean tongue Etruscan. Called Dene-Caucasian, this ancient language was reconstructed in large part by Soviet linguist Sergei Starostin, another student of Dolgopolskys. This wide-ranging tongue, spoken on both sides of the Bering Strait and at both ends of the Eurasian land mass, reflects the vast movements of ancient peoples who took their language with them and in some cases, such as Basque, kept it alive despite their being surrounded by other tongues. 印欧语反倒发源于亚洲: Farming in Europe. The Soviets linguistic work has found unexpected support in new research by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew, who, unaware of the linguistic studies, independently determined that the Indo-European homeland was in Anatolia, based on a reassessment of the archaeological evidence. Renfrew suggests that it was farmers, not warriors, who were responsible for the spread of the Indo-European language into Europe. He notes that even if a farmers offspring had moved only 10 miles from the family farm to set up farms of their own, the resulting wave of agriculture could have swept throughout Europe from Anatolia in about 1,500 years, carrying the Indo-European language with it. Because farming can support a larger number of people than hunting and gathering, the existing inhabitants of Europe were probably pushed out or adapted to farming on their own, says Renfrew.