Comparative linguistics

Examples of Comparative linguistics in the following topics:

• Migration to North America

  • Due to the vastness and variety of the climates, ecology, vegetation, fauna, and landforms, ancient peoples migrated and coalesced separately into numerous peoples of distinct linguistic and cultural groups.
  • Comparative linguistics shows fascinating diversity, with similarities between tribes hundreds of miles apart, yet startling differences with neighboring groups.

• Great Basin Culture

  • Some groups may have not have spoken Numic languages, but no relics of their linguistic patterns remain today.
  • Because Great Basin peoples did not come into contact with European-Americans or African Americans until comparatively later in North American history, many groups were able to maintain their traditional tribal religions.

• Enduring Cultures

  • Due to the vastness and variety of the climates, ecology, vegetation, fauna, and landforms, ancient peoples migrated and coalesced separately into numerous separate peoples of distinct linguistic and cultural groups.
  • Inca rule [] extended to nearly a hundred linguistic or ethnic communities, some 9 to 14 million people connected by a 25,000 kilometer road system.

• Settling the Southern Colonies

  • Prior to colonization, the American Indian tribes of the Algonquin, Siouan, and Iroquoian linguistic groups inhabited the Chesapeake Bay area.

• Meso-American Culture

  • Archaeological, historical, and linguistic evidence suggests that the Nahua peoples originally came from the deserts of northern Mexico, where they lived alongside the Cora and Huichol, and the southwestern United States.
  • Allying with the Tepanecs and Acolhua people of Texcoco, they formed the Aztec empire, spreading the political and linguistic influence of the Nahuas well into Central America.

• The Pequot War

  • Based on archaeological and linguistic evidence, the Pequot and Mohegan Tribes, Indian peoples of the Algonquian language group, probably had lived in what is now southeastern Connecticut for several hundred years.

• The Great Migration and the "Promised Land"

  • Since African American migrants retained many Southern cultural and linguistic traits, such cultural differences created a sense of "otherness" in terms of their reception by others who were living in the cities before them.

• Clinton and Domestic Policy

  • The One America Initiative addressed race and diversity in schools; one of the model counties of diversity in schools was Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse school districts in the country.

• Settling the Colonial South and the Chesapeake

  • Prior to colonization, the Native American tribes of the Algonquin, Siouan, Iroquoian linguistic groups inhabited the Chesapeake Bay area .

• The Transition to Peacetime

  • As a result of the postwar economic boom, 60% of the American population had attained a "middle-class" standard of living by the mid-50s (defined as incomes of $3,000 to $10,000 in constant dollars), compared with only 31% in the last year of prosperity before the onset of the Great Depression.
  • In 1947, 34% of all families earned less than $3,000 a year, compared with 22.1% in 1960.
  • In 1947, 60% of black families lived below the poverty level (defined in one study as below $3000 in 1968 dollars), compared with 23% of white families.
  • In 1968, 23% of black families lived below the poverty level, compared with 9% of white families.