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

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Date
2019-05
Dewey
Linguistique
Sujet
Sino-Tibetan languages; human prehistory; East Asia; peopling; computer-assisted language comparison
Journal issue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume
116
Number
21
Publication date
05-2019
Publisher
National Academy of sciences
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817972116
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/19471
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Author
Sagart, Laurent
1324 Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale [CRLAO]
Jacques, Guillaume
1324 Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale [CRLAO]
Lai, Yunfan
527959 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History [MPI-SHH]
Ryder, Robin J.
60 CEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision [CEREMADE]
Thouzeau, Valentin
60 CEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision [CEREMADE]
Greenhill, Simon J.
527959 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History [MPI-SHH]
List, Johann-Mattis
527959 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History [MPI-SHH]
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the world’s largest and most prominent families, spoken by nearly 1.4 billion people. Despite the importance of the Sino-Tibetan languages, their prehistory remains controversial, with ongoing debate about when and where they originated. To shed light on this debate we develop a database of comparative linguistic data, and apply the linguistic comparative method to identify sound correspondences and establish cognates. We then use phylogenetic methods to infer the relationships among these languages and estimate the age of their origin and homeland. Our findings point to Sino-Tibetan originating with north Chinese millet farmers around 7200 B.P. and suggest a link to the late Cishan and the early Yangshao cultures.

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