Joseph Greenberg renamed Sapir's proposal
Almosan and grouped it in an even more inclusive
Almosan–Keresiouan phylum with the
Caddoan,
Iroquoian,
Keresan, and
Siouan families. This proposal has been rejected by linguists specializing in Native American languages.
Murray Gell-Mann,
Ilia Peiros, and
Georgiy Starostin group
Chukotko-Kamchatkan and
Nivkh with Almosan.
Sergei Nikolaev in the two papers where he was arguing for a relationship between the
Nivkh language, the
Algic languages and the
Wakashan languages, also proposed a more remote relationship between these three together and the
Salishan languages . ==See also==