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<journal-id>2007-736X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cuad. Lingüíst. Col. Méx.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-736X</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[El Colegio de México A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2007-736X2021000100108</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24201/clecm.v8i0.217</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Sobre la filogenia de las lenguas de México]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[On the philogeny of Mexican Amerindian languages]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Lara]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Luis Fernando]]></given-names>
</name>
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<institution><![CDATA[,El Colegio de México  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-736X2021000100108&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-736X2021000100108&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-736X2021000100108&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen. Este artículo es una revisión crítica de la teoría de Joshua Greenberg sobre la filogenia de las lenguas amerindias (en especial las lenguas mexicanas) en relación con la teoría de Luigi Cavalli-Sforza acerca de la genética evolucionista de la humanidad. El artículo expone brevemente la historia y la metodología de la lingüística romance y la germánica, consideradas como el origen de las propuestas de la filogenia amerindia; además este texto revisa los esfuerzos y los resultados de la léxico estadística y la glotocronología de Morris Swadesh.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract. This article is a critical review of Joshua Greenberg&#8217;s theory on the phylogenesis of Amerindian languages (especially Mexican languages) as related to Luigi Cavalli-Sforza&#8217;s theory on the evolutionary genetics of Earth&#8217;s peoples. It exposes briefly the history and methodology of romance and Germanic linguistics, as considered the source of Amerindian phylogenic proposals, and reviews the efforts and consequences of Morris Swadesh&#8217;s lexicostatistics and glottochronology.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[filogenia del español]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[lenguas amerindias]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[History]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[methods]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Spanish phylogenetic]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Amerindian languages]]></kwd>
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