Tags: Language.
Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen. Greenberg proposed that all of the indigenous languages of the Americas belong to one of three language families the previously established Eskimo–Aleut and Na–Dene and with everything else— otherwise classified by specialists as belonging to dozens of independent families—as Amerind.