Paleolinguistics is a term used by some linguists for the study of the distant human past by linguistic means. For most historical linguists there's no separate field of paleolinguistics. Those who use the term are generally advocates of hypotheses not generally accepted by mainstream historical linguists, a group colloquially referred to as "long-rangers". The controversial hypotheses in question fall into two categories. Some of them involve the application of standard historical linguistic me… (More on Paleolinguistics)