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Looking Over vs. Overlooking Native American Languages: Let’s Void the Void
Title | Looking Over vs. Overlooking Native American Languages: Let’s Void the Void |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1996 |
Authors | Stubbs, Brian D. |
Journal | Journal of Book of Mormon Studies |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 1 |
Pagination | 1-49 |
Date Published | Spring 1996 |
Keywords | Ancient America; Language; Native Americans |
Abstract | The time-depth of the Romance language family (ca. 2,000 years) yields an abundance of similarities among languages descended from Latin: Spanish, French, Italian, and so forth. The time-depth of Lehi is not much greater (2,600 years), yet no similar abundance of accepted linguistic evidence for Lehi’s presence in the Americas has emerged. Is this because of a lack of evidence or a lack of looking? We cannot know until we look. The relative absence of effort in Native American languages relevant to Book of Mormon research is a huge void in Latter-day Saint scholarly endeavor. This paper discusses the value of and need to void this existing void, and presents from one Native American language family an example of the possibilities. |
URL | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol5/iss1/1 |
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