Talk:Deneology

@Kmoksy This word seems to be very rare. Do you have an example of it being used? —Fish bowl (talk) 23:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

True, it's rare: Kari 2019 (James Kari, The Resilience of Dene Generative Geography, Considering "the Nen' Yese' Ensemble. Alaska journal of anthropology, 17 (1-2): 44-76): In this article I use Dene, Proto-Dene, Deneist in place of Athabascan, Proto-Athabascan, Athabascanist, etc. The hypothesis in my 2010a article is now the Dene Geolinguistic Conservatism Hypothesis. Te term “Deneology” has potential as well. Lovick 2019 (Olga Charlotte Lovick, A grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1: phonology, lexical classes, morphology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press): I also use the word "Deneologist" to refer to a person studying this language family, as a replacement for the term "Athabascanist." --Kmoksy (talk) 00:27, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

@Kmoksy See WT:ATTEST. This seems to be the coiner talking about their coinage. Do you have any evidence that anyone else has used this as an English word? Chuck Entz (talk) 02:02, 3 April 2022 (UTC)