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Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa [PDF]

, 2013
The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of ...
Berger, Bonnie, Lipson, Mark, Loh, Po-Ru, Pakendorf, Brigitte, Patterson, Nick, Pickrell, Joseph K., Reich, David, Stoneking, Mark   +7 more
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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]

, 2009
Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi, A. Froment, A. Ranciaro, A. T. Juma, Batini, Behar, Bereir, C. Ehret, C. Wambebe, Campbell, Cann, Cerny, Chen, Coia, Destro-Bisol, F. A. Reed, F. R. Friedlaender, Forster, Forster, Friedlaender, G. Lema, G. S. Pretorius, H. Mortensen, Hassan, J. B. Hirbo, J. H. Moore, J. L. Weber, J.-M. Bodo, Jakobsson, K. Powell, Li, Lind, M. A. Thera, M. Ibrahim, M. J. Kotze, M. W. Smith, O. Doumbo, Parra, Parra, Patin, Patterson, Pritchard, Pritchard, Reed, Reynolds, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, S. A. Omar, S. A. Tishkoff, S. M. Williams, Salas, Scozzari, Semino, Sirugo, Smith, T. B. Nyambo, Tishkoff, Tishkoff, Verdu, Wang, Wood   +61 more
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Adapting to New Contexts. Cuneiform in Anatolia [PDF]

, 2011
This article focuses on cuneiform and scribal education in Anatolia. It attempts to trace some of the developments in the corpus of knowledge and training when it let the confines of its initial area of relevance and was received in Anatolia by the ...
Weeden, Mark
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Caucasian and Papuan

Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 1993
Middle Eastern Caucasian lexical similarities to Sino-Tibetan and to the Papuan languages are extremely numerous. It is obvious that it should be the other way around, with basque being close to the Middle Eastern Caucasian languages because of ...
W. Wilfried Schuhmacher, F. Seto
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð, Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir, Adrijana Visnjic‐Jevtic, Alison Clark   +3 more
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Thinking in Islands; the Portuguese Perception of the Indonesian Archipelago and Particularly of Sunda in Early Texts and Charts [PDF]

, 2012
This article discusses various early sources on the Indonesian archipelago. It starts with the status of knowledge before the first voyage of the Portuguese to the Moluccas from accounts of travellers to insular Southeast Asia in the Middle Ages and the ...
Langguth, S. (Svann)
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LEXICAL AND SYNTAX FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND ARABIC LEGAL DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2010
This paper discusses the common lexical and grammatical features of legal discourse in English and Arabic.6 The rationale behind this analysis is to compare and contrast the discourse of both languages, list the similarities and differences between them
Hanem EL-FARAHATY
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Beyond the Two-Clause Sentence: Acquisition of Clause Chaining in Six Languages

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Clause chains are a special type of complex sentence, found in hundreds of languages outside Western Europe, in which clauses are dependent but not embedded, and dozens of clauses can be combined into a single sentential unit.
Hannah S. Sarvasy, Soonja Choi
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Learning Arabic Language by Analyzing the Linguistic Expressions in the Verses of Surah al-Fatikhah l Ta’allum al-Lugah al-‘Arabiyyah min Khilali Tahlil al-Ta’birat al-Lugawiyyah fi Ayati Surah al-Fatikhah

Jurnal Al Bayan: Jurnal Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Arab, 2021
Surah Al-Fatikhah is very important to understand, because this surah is the main surah in the Qur’an which contains several hidden meanings that need to be understood by every Muslim. Surah Al-Fatikhah must be read in every prayer, but several people do
Agung Setiyawan, Moh. Ainin, Uril Bahruddin, Ahmad Arifin B. Sapar   +3 more
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Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies

sociorel, 2009
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, invites papers to be presented at the second international Symposium on Middle Eastern Studies (17th - 18th October, 2009). The topic will be ‘Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies’. Papers can cover any period or region in Middle Eastern Studies broadly defined.
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