Some observations on the transeurasian language family, from the perspective of the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis. [PDF]
Abstract During my attendance at the ‘Transeurasian Millets and Beans, Words and Genes’ conference in Jena (January 2019), Martine Robbeets invited me to comment on the articles that are published in this Special Collection in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences.
Bellwood P.
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The language of the Transeurasian farmers
Abstract The Farming Language Dispersal Hypothesis makes the radical and controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their present-day distribution to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. Especially for regions such as Northern Asia, where farming is only marginally viable, this claim has ...
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Austronesian influence and Transeurasian ancestry in Japanese [PDF]
In this paper, I propose a hypothesis reconciling Austronesian influence and Transeurasian ancestry in the Japanese language, explaining the spread of the Japanic languages through farming dispersal. To this end, I identify the original speech community of the Transeurasian language family as the Neolithic Xinglongwa culture situated in the West Liao ...
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Topological properties and organizing principles of semantic networks. [PDF]
Budel G, Jin Y, Van Mieghem P, Kitsak M.
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Phylogenetic signal and rate of evolutionary change in language structures. [PDF]
Hübler N.
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Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia: Six new perspectives on prehistoric exchange in the Eastern Steppe Zone. [PDF]
Bjørn RG.
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Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene. [PDF]
Stoneking M +5 more
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Genomic insights into the genetic structure and population history of Mongolians in Liaoning Province. [PDF]
Hou X +7 more
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Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia. [PDF]
Wang CC +84 more
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On the New Concept of the Origin of the Transeurasian or Altaic Languages
A new concept of the origin of the Altaic languages emerged in foreign publications recently. This concept, based on linguistic, genetic, and archaeological data, linked the ancestral Altaic language to the early farming cultures of the West Liaohe River.
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