Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21264085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martine Robbeets (0000-0002-2860-0230, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, corresponding author), Christian Leipe (0000-0002-0805-2345, Institute of Geological Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 100071 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaternary Environments and Humans (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2950-2365 • E-ISSN: 2950-2365 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100071 |
| OpenAlex | W4410629387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 91 |
The term “Transeurasian” refers to a proposed language family stretching across Europe and northern Asia , which includes five well-established branches: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The complex range of interacting factors that drove the spread of these languages from their homeland in Northeast Asia to their present-day locations is yet to be understood. Here, we investigate the potential impacts of climate change on the spread of the Transeurasian languages across mid-latitude East Asia during the Holocene , beginning from the initial break-up of the Transeurasian language family about 9200 years ago. Comparison of palaeoclimate records and linguistic developments demonstrates that global- to regional-scale climate trends may have been factors that promoted the spread of these languages
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |