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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Author Correction: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. [PDF]

Nature
Scerri EML, Blinkhorn J, Groucutt HS, Stewart M, Candy I, Allué E, Burguet-Coca A, Currás A, Carleton WC, Lindauer S, Spengler R, Boxleitner K, Asciak G, Colucci M, Gauci R, Hatton A, Kutowsky J, Maier A, Mata-González M, Mifsud N, Niang K, Roberts P, de Giorgio J, Xerri R, Vella NC.   +24 more
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Did Stora Karlsö wolves reach the island naturally or by boat? [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Janssens LA, Mech LD.
europepmc   +1 more source

Shared Vocabulary between Meiteilon and Tai Varieties and Pre‐Modern Language Contact on the Indo‐Myanmar Border1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines lexical and phonological evidence for language contact between Old and modern Meiteilon (Manipuri) and Tai varieties, identifying loanwords relating to domestic life, trade and literary culture. Comparative data from Shan dialects and Old Meiteilon manuscripts such as the Cheitharon Kumpapa are employed in contextualising
Josiah Medin
wiley   +1 more source

Modest doubt: enabling discovery across maritime heritage records. [PDF]

Int J Digit Humanit
Pink J, Singh S, Chapman A, Sturt F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes reveal a potential origin and dispersal of the ancestral Branch 0. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Fu S, Lin X, Nie Y, Zhao X, Zhang D, Zhang J, Xiao X, Zhou Z, Sun B, Cui Y.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
wiley   +1 more source