Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2018 Background The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown contrasting proportions of Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestry in their ...
Kristiina Tambets +35 more
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Identification of Population Affinity Using Dental Traits: A Narrative Review in Forensic Odontology. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aim Forensic odontology utilizes dental morphology to estimate population affinity in medico‐legal cases. This review examines the role of dental traits in human identification, emphasizing their limitations in conclusively estimating ancestry or ethnicity.
Atreya A, Menezes RG, Bolla SR, Dahal S.
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Information (Switzerland)Since the early 19th century, linguists have collected enough linguistic data to draw a remarkably stable Uralic language family tree. However, the traditional Uralic language family tree has two main problems.
Peter Z Revesz, Revesz Peter Z
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Archaeogenetic Data Mining Supports a Uralic–Minoan Homeland in the Danube Basin
Information (Switzerland)Four types of archaeogenetic data mining are used to investigate the origin of the Minoans and the Uralic peoples: (1) six SNP mutations related to eye, hair, and skin phenotypes; (2) whole-genome admixture analysis using the G25 system; (3) an analysis ...
Peter Z Revesz, Revesz Peter Z
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2002 This paper deals with the Uralic languages, their regional distribution and relationship with one another. The Uralic languages are spoken in a large area in North and Central Eurasia.
Pirkko Suihkonen
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THE INTENSIVE CONTROVERSY ON CHINESE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY: REFUTATION OF THE LIQUID MEDIAL FOR DIVISION-2 IN OLD CHINESE [PDF]
Trames, 2021 The present paper reports the intensive controversy on Chinese historical phonology that broke out in 2002. After sorting through over 150 Chinese papers on the intensive controversy by the Sino-linguistsâ side and the descriptivistsâ side, the ...
Jingyi Gao
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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The present occurrence or non-occurrence of 46 structural features is analyzed in language groups ranging from Finnic to Eskimo-Aleut. Normalized measures of commonalities and distances between two languages are developed and used for graphical ...
Rein Taagepera, Ago Künnap
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On etymology of Sinitic, Indo-European and Uralic terms for 'star' supported by regular sound correspondences [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has researched four Sinitic and Germanic shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma) and two Sinitic and Uralic shared (Sino-Uralic) etyma. Two of the Sino-Germanic etyma form a rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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Identification of the Etymon of Indo-European 'Moist', Sinitic 'South', Tibeto-Burman 'Sun, Day, Sky' and Hungarian nap 'Sun, Day' [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified two Sinitic and Germanic shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma):【南, 陰】. These two etyma form a rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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Sino-Uralic etymology for 'Jupiter, year' supported by rhyme correspondence [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified seven Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies (etyma). Three of them form a rhyme correspondence. Two of them form an onset correspondence. Four of them form another rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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