This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Dexbot (talk | contribs) at 19:26, 16 April 2016 (Bot: Cleaning up old interwiki links). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
 | This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Linguistic monogenesis and polygenesis" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
In the field of linguistics, polygenesis is the view that human languages evolved as several lineages independent of one another. It is contrasted with monogenesis, which is the view that human languages all go back to a single common ancestor.
Polygenesis is not to be confused with the wave theory, originally propounded by Johannes Schmidt.
 | This linguistics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
