Uralo-Siberian is a hypothetical language family proposed in 1998 by linguist Michael Fortescue in his book Language Relations across Bering Strait, linking the Uralic, Yukaghir and Eskaleut language families; some early formulations also included Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Nivkh. The connections are generally viewed by specialists as speculative, and Fortescue's supporting evidence has been evaluated with only limited positivity, seen as scattered rather than decisive, so the grouping remains neither widely accepted nor widely rejected.
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