Are there any Traces of Hebrew Language in Native American Languages?
Recent scholarly research suggests a possible link between Uto-Aztecan (a family of about 30 Native American languages) and Hebrew. Dr. Brian Stubbs, a professional linguist, argues for numerous parallels between Hebrew and Uto-Aztecan. Dr. Stubbs avoids the pitfall of amateurs who simply point at similar words between two different languages. As he points out, “any two languages can have a few similar words by pure chance.” But there are methods linguists use to eliminate chance similarities so they can determine, with confidence, if two languages are related. These methods are described in the FAIR wiki article found at the link provided at the end of this article. Dr. Roger Westcott, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Linguists at Drew University, a Rhodes Scholar, and who is not LDS, has made positive comments abut Dr. Stubbs’ research when he says, “Perhaps the most surprising of all Eurasian-American linguistic connections, at least in geographic terms, is that proposed by Br