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Response to claims made in "Book of Mormon Difficulties: A Study"
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Response to hypotheses proposed in Book of Mormon Difficulties: A Study- Linguistics
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- Response to hypothesis: 63 - "The current diversity of Native American tongues would not exist if they were all the descendants of ancient Hebrews"
- Response to hypothesis: 65 - "It should be remarked that there was contact with no other people or source of literature that would influence the character of Nephite and Lamanite language than this national literature of the Jews"
- Response to hypothesis: 66 - "this people of Zarahemla came in contact with the last survivor of the race which had previously occupied the region of what we now call Central America"
- Response to hypothesis: 91 - "there are a large number of separate language stocks in America that show very little relationship to each other"
- Response to hypothesis: 91- "it would take a long time...to develop these dialects and stocks where the development is conceived of as arising from a common source of origin"
- Response to hypothesis: 91 - "there is no connection between the American languages and the language of any people of the Old World"
- Response to hypothesis: 92 - "the time limits named in the Book of Mormon...is not sufficient to allow of these divergencies into the American langauge stocks and their dialects"
- Response to hypothesis: 92 - "if there have been migrations from Asiatic, African, or European countries in the period from the destruction of the Nephites...then such immigrations were sufficient in volume or frequency, as to affect the language or culture of American peoples"
- Response to hypothesis: 92 - "Can we in the face of the authorities here presented say that the independent language stocks and their inclusive dialects do not exist?"
- Questions posed in Section: "Linguistics"
- Questions posed in Section: "Were Domestic Animals—Horses, Asses, Oxen, Cows, Sheep, Swine; Iron and Steel; Swords and Scimeters; Silk, Wheat, Barley, and Well Vehicles Known to Native American Races in Pre-Columbian, and within Historic Times?"
- Questions posed in Section: "The Question of the Origin of Native American Races and Their Culture"