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Genuinely unresolved points this atlas records rather than silently guesses at: a debated etymology, a contested classification boundary between two related languages, a disputed date for a script's own origin, or any other fact where the scholarly record itself disagrees. An open question is attached to the entity it concerns and stays visible on that entity's own page, so a reader sees the atlas's own honesty about what is not settled rather than a single confident answer standing in for real disagreement.

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Does Haida belong within the Na-Dene family, or is it an unrelated language isolate?

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Has a Proto-Khasi-Palaungic proto-language been securely reconstructed?

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Has a Proto-Wakashan proto-language been securely reconstructed?

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How many speakers do the Formosan languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Gur languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Iroquoian languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Khasi-Palaungic languages total today?

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How many speakers do the languages grouped under the proposed Altaic family actually total?

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How many speakers do the Mek languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Na-Dene languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Pama-Nyungan languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Penutian languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Ryukyuan languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Sarmi-Jayapura languages total today?

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How many speakers do the Wakashan languages total today?

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How many speakers does the Algonquian-Wakashan grouping total today?

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Is Joseph Greenberg's Amerind grouping of the indigenous languages of the Americas a valid genetic family?

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Is rongorongo a true writing system, and what does it record?

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What language does Linear A encode?

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When Was Panini Born?

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