Amerind

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Am·er·in·di·an

(ăm′ə-rĭn′dē-ən) also Am·er·ind (ăm′ə-rĭnd′)

An American Indian. See Usage Note at American Indian.

Am′er·in′di·an, Am′er·ind′ adj.

Am′er·in′dic adj.

Usage Note: The contractions Amerindian and Amerind occur infrequently in modern American English, especially with reference to the Native American peoples of the United States and Canada. They are somewhat more common in anthropological contexts or when used of the native peoples of the Caribbean and Central and South America.

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Am•er•ind

(ˈæm ə rɪnd)

n.

1. Also called Am•er•in•di•an (ˌæm əˈrɪn di ən) American Indian.

2. the indigenous languages of the Americas, taken collectively or as a hypothesized linguistic family.

[1895–1900, Amer.; Amer (ican) + Ind (ian)]

usage: See Indian.

AmerInd

or Amer. Ind.,

American Indian.

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Noun	1.	Amerind - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians American-Indian language, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains Atakapan, Attacapa, Attacapan, Atakapa - a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas Athabascan, Athapaskan language, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) Muskhogean language, Muskogean language, Muskhogean, Muskogean - a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States Na-Dene - a family of North American Indian languages Mosan - a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia Caddoan, Caddoan language, Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois Kechuan, Quechuan, Quechuan language, Quechua, Kechua - the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas Maracan language, Maraco - the language spoken by the Maraco Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani language - a family of South American Indian languages Arawak, Arawakan - a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America Caribbean language, Carib - the family of languages spoken by the Carib Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztecan language - a family of American Indian languages Mayan language, Maya, Mayan - a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya Siouan language, Siouan - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux Tanoan, Tanoan language - a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States Hokan, Hoka - a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California Penutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
Adj.	1.	Amerind - of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; "Native American religions"; "Indian arrowheads" Amerindic, Native American, Indian

Translations

indiano

Amerind

[ˌæmərɪnd] N → amerindio/a m/f

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References in periodicals archive ?

[In Russian; English translation, 1989, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Science Foundation, Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi, India.]

Systematics of North Pacific sand lances of the genus Ammodytes based on molecular and morphological evidence, with the description of a new species from Japan

2007 Muscle markers revisited: activity pattern reconstruction with controls in a Central California Amerind Population.

Entesic changes and terrestrial mobility in precolonial costal human groups from southern Brazil/Alteracoes entesicas e mobilidade terrestre em grupos pre-coloniais litoraneos do sul do Brasil

June 2002] and National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., Amerind Publishing Company, New Delhi, India.

Systematics, diversity, genetics, and evolution of wild and cultivated potatoes

Translated from the Russian, Amerind Publishing Co.

Oligochaetes (Annelida, Clitellata) in the Anzali International Wetland, North-Western Iran

In this sense, Greenberg (2005)--whose main principle in research for being certain that one's discoveries are not mere coincidences is the existence of double simultaneous affinities between words belonging to different languages, namely the existence of similarities both in form, as well as in meaning--came to the conclusion that, for instance, in the Americas only three main linguistic macro-families exist: Eskimo-Aleut, Na-Dene and Amerind, while Indo-European is part of a larger linguistic entity, called by Holger Pedersen "Nostratic" (see at least Pedersen 1962, Dolgopolsky 1998, Bomhard 1984, 1994, 2008).

Mind rhythms of perception, anxiety and creativity

Yang et al., "Native American mitochondrial DNA analysis indicates that the Amerind and the Nadene populations were founded by two independent migrations," Genetics, vol.

Paleogenetic studies in Guajajara skeletal remains, Maranhao state, Brazil

Based on a symposium held in 2007 at the Amerind Foundation, this volume treats the first-millennium roots of second-millennium Native American communities such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.

Southwestern pithouse communities, AD 200-900

Greenberg, who died in 2001, called this ancient language Amerind.

The First Americans: Migration From Asia Occurred In Three Waves

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