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.
25 statements marked Debated.
Thai Script, In Use Since (Year)1292
Thai Script, Scripts
Standing
Concerns In Use Since (Year)
Currently States 1292
The Ram Khamhaeng Inscription of 1292 is the traditional first-appearance date, but many scholars question its authenticity; a rival find, the Wat Bang Sanuk Inscription, has been proposed for as early as 1219.
Source Wikipedia: Thai Script
Tibetan Script, In Use Since (Year)620
Tibetan Script, Scripts
Standing
Concerns In Use Since (Year)
Currently States 620
Traditionally dated to c. 620 under King Songtsen Gampo, but the historical existence of Thonmi Sambhota, the minister credited with its invention, is difficult to verify, and the earliest Tibetan chronicles do not mention him.
Source Wikipedia: Tibetan Script
Trans-New Guinea, Proto-Language StatusA core of roughly 35-40 subgroups is accepted as genuinely related on the strength of regular sound correspondences; the family's outer boundary is contested.
Trans-New Guinea, Language Families
Standing
Concerns Proto-Language Status
Currently States A core of roughly 35-40 subgroups is accepted as genuinely related on the strength of regular sound correspondences; the family's outer boundary is contested.
William Foley rejects much of Stephen Wurm's broader evidence as merely typological rather than genetic, and Matthew Dryer (2022) has questioned classifications resting mainly on pronoun similarities, which may reflect contact between neighboring languages rather than common descent.
Source Wikipedia: Trans-New Guinea Languages
Turkic, Proto-Language StatusProto-Turkic is reconstructed via the comparative method and is securely established. Its proposed deeper unity with Mongolic and Tungusic under an Altaic macrofamily is a disputed and largely rejected hypothesis, not standard classification.
Turkic, Language Families
Standing
Concerns Proto-Language Status
Currently States Proto-Turkic is reconstructed via the comparative method and is securely established. Its proposed deeper unity with Mongolic and Tungusic under an Altaic macrofamily is a disputed and largely rejected hypothesis, not standard classification.
The internal Proto-Turkic reconstruction is not in dispute; the external Altaic hypothesis linking it to Mongolic and Tungusic is.
Source Glottolog
Uralic, Common NameFinno-Ugric
Uralic, Language Families
Standing
Concerns Common Name
Currently States Finno-Ugric
Sometimes used as a loose synonym for Uralic, but more accurately denotes a narrower, disputed subdivision of the Uralic family excluding the Samoyedic languages; not a strict synonym.
Source Wikipedia: Uralic Languages