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Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan

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ID23353166
AuthorsLaurent Sagart (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, CNRS, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 75006 Paris, France), Guillaume Jacques (0000-0003-1220-2323, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, CNRS, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 75006 Paris, France), Yanning Lai (0000-0001-7034-056X, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Yunfan Lai (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Robin Ryder (0000-0002-7467-0467, Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques de la Décision, CNRS, Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL University, 75775 Paris, France), Valentin Thouzeau (0000-0002-2096-2675, Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques de la Décision, CNRS, Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL University, 75775 Paris, France), Simon J Greenhill (0000-0001-7832-6156, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Johann‐mattis List (0000-0003-2133-8919, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Johann-Mattis List (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
Year2019
Volume116
Issue21
Pages10317-10322
Publication date2019-05-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-8424 • E-ISSN: 1091-6490
PublisherNational Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1073/pnas.1817972116
PMID31061123
OpenAlexW2944080461
LanguageEN
Citations received83
References cited46

Significance Given its size and geographical extension, Sino-Tibetan is of the highest importance for understanding the prehistory of East Asia, and of neighboring language families. Based on a dataset of 50 Sino-Tibetan languages, we infer phylogenies that date the origin of the language family to around 7200 B.P., linking the origin of the language family with the late Cishan and the early Yangshao cultures.

Archaeology · Biology · China · East Asia · Evolutionary biology · Genealogy · Geography · Prehistory · History · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Cultural Studies

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