Background
Sadovszky was born in Hungary on July 3, 1925 and grew to maturity there during World World War World War II
(Evidence gathered from physical anthropology, archeology,...)
Evidence gathered from physical anthropology, archeology, and comparative ethnology clearly indicates that the American Indians are of Asian origin. Since the discovery of America, now more than 500 years ago, various scholars have been searching for linguistic links between the Native American languages and the languages of Eurasia. In this work the author proposes a comprehensive linguistic relationship between the Central California Indian languages and the Uralic language family. The volume contains an essay concerning the discovery of California written for a well-informed public, a great amount of ethnographic material, an extensive comparative grammar and phonology, several vocabularies and a comparative linguistic analysis of a shamanistic text. The author introduces a new word 'Cal-Ugrian'. It stands for California Ugrian. It represents a new concept in comparative culture and linguistics. The author trusts that the reader, after carefully having studied the evidence, will agree that the languages of Native Central Californians are indeed closely related to the Uralic, Finno-Ugrian and specifically the Ugrian languages spoken in Northwest Siberia.
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Sadovszky was born in Hungary on July 3, 1925 and grew to maturity there during World World War World War II
He is best known for his linguistic work attempting to link Native American languages of California to languages spoken in Siberia. Sadovszky received his Ph.L. at Collegium Aloysianum in Italy. Sadovszky moved to Los Angeles to continue his graduate studies at University of California, Los Los Angeles
Sadovszky taught in Germany, and in the United States. at University of California Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Nevada, Reno before joining the Cal State Fullerton in Orange County south of Los Angeles in 1971.
During his tenure as professor of anthropology at CSUF he claimed to have proven that almost 80 percent of the languages spoken by 19 Indian tribes in California and two nations in Siberia are related.
This became known as the Cal-Ugrian Theory. Cal-Ugrian theory
Sadovszky elaborates the Cal-Ugrian theory in his book
The theory describes the relationship between Native American languages in California and languages spoken in Siberia which according to Sadovszky is based on more than 10,000 different words and grammatical traits. The Indian languages were or are spoken in an area along the Northern California coast from Bodega Bay to Big Sur as well as along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and by 6,000 Mansi and 17,000 Khanty, east of the Urals.
One claim of Sadovszky"s theory is that the ancestors of some California tribes arrived only 3,000 years ago, which is much more recently than the origin of most tribes in the Americas which according to the generally accepted theory regarding the settlement of the Americas date their original migrations to around 20,000 years ago across the Bering Strait.
In contrast, the migration around 1,000 Bachelor of Civil Engineering would have occurred from the Ob river delta across the Arctic Ocean in summer months and down the American coast. Criticism The Cal-Ugrian theory was not well accepted in the United States, with some linguists noting that he was not trained in comparative linguistics although he had done some fieldwork among California Indians. As a result, his book was published abroad, and the upshot was that he gained a reputation for his knowledge of Indo-European and Uralic languages but more so in Europe than in the United States.
Evidence for a relatively recent marine migration is very limited, but Sadovszky claims that archaeological and other evidence back up the linguistic evidence of his theory but so far there has been little interest in further research in this area.
(Evidence gathered from physical anthropology, archeology,...)