三角化支持跨亚洲语言的农业传播
Martine Robbeets1, Remco Bouckaert2,3, Matthew Conte4
1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany. robbeets@shh.mpg.de.
Nature
|November 11, 2021
概括
跨亚洲语言的起源和传播,包括日语和韩语,是由东北亚的早期农民推动的,而不是牧民. 这种农业扩张从早期新石器时代起塑造了语言景观.
科学领域:
- 语言学,遗传学,考古学,人口史
背景情况:
- 跨亚洲语言 (日语,韩语,通古斯语,蒙古语,土耳其语) 的起源和传播受到广泛的争论.
- 了解语言分散,农业扩张和人口流动之间的相互作用对于欧亚历史至关重要.
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