Language Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
4 statements marked Debunked.
Dene-Caucasian, Proto-Language StatusDiscredited
Dene-Caucasian, Language Families
Standing
Concerns Proto-Language Status
Currently States Discredited
Source Dene-Caucasian languages, Wikipedia
Melanesian languages, Proto-Language StatusNot a genealogical group; at best paraphyletic, likely polyphyletic
Melanesian languages, Language Families
Standing
Concerns Proto-Language Status
Currently States Not a genealogical group; at best paraphyletic, likely polyphyletic
Sources describe the classification as contested
Source Melanesian languages - Wikipedia
Remote Oceanic languages, Proto-Language Statusproposal abandoned; no proto-language established
Remote Oceanic languages, Language Families
Standing
Concerns Proto-Language Status
Currently States proposal abandoned; no proto-language established
Source Remote Oceanic languages - Wikipedia
Ural-Altaic, Proto-Language StatusRejected as a genealogical family; mainstream linguistics now holds that even the Altaic languages proposed within it do not share a common descent, so no valid Ural-Altaic proto-language is reconstructed.
Ural-Altaic, Language Families
Standing
Concerns Proto-Language Status
Currently States Rejected as a genealogical family; mainstream linguistics now holds that even the Altaic languages proposed within it do not share a common descent, so no valid Ural-Altaic proto-language is reconstructed.
Source Ural-Altaic languages, Wikipedia