Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan
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Sagart, Laurent; Jacques, Guillaume; Lai, Yunfan; Ryder, Robin J; Thouzeau, Valentin; Greenhill, Simon; List, Johann Mattis
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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...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Sagart, Laurent | |
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dc.contributor.author | Jacques, Guillaume | |
dc.contributor.author | Lai, Yunfan | |
dc.contributor.author | Ryder, Robin J | |
dc.contributor.author | Thouzeau, Valentin | |
dc.contributor.author | Greenhill, Simon | |
dc.contributor.author | List, Johann Mattis | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-22T00:43:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-22T00:43:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0027-8424 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/219995 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | National Academy of Sciences (USA) | |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2019 | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.source | PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | |
dc.source.uri | https://www.pnas.org/content/116/21/10317 | |
dc.subject | Sino-Tibetan languages | |
dc.subject | human prehistory | |
dc.subject | East Asia | |
dc.subject | peopling | |
dc.subject | computer-assisted language comparison | |
dc.title | Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 116 | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200314 - South-East Asian Languages (excl. Indonesian) | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200402 - Computational Linguistics | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200406 - Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u3102795xPUB1965 | |
local.publisher.url | https://www.pnas.org/content/116/21/10317 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Sagart, Laurent, CNRS | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Jacques, Guillaume, CNRS | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Lai, Yunfan, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Ryder, Robin J, PSL University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Thouzeau, Valentin, PSL University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Greenhill, Simon, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | List, Johann Mattis, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE120101954 | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE140100041 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 21 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 10317 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 10322 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1073/pnas.1817972116 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 950502 - Understanding Asia's Past | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-11-02T04:22:19Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85066095212 | |
local.identifier.thomsonID | 4.68403E+11 | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
dc.provenance | https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/10338 | |
dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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