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Concomitant replacement of language and mtDNA in South Caspian populations of Iran.
Current biology : CB - 4 Apr 2006
Nasidze Ivan, Quinque Dominique, Rahmani Manijeh, Alemohamad Seyed Ali, Stoneking Mark
Abstract excerpt
The Gilaki and Mazandarani occupy the South Caspian region of Iran and speak languages belonging to the North-Western branch of Iranian languages . It has been suggested that their ancestors came from the Caucasus region, perhaps displacing an earlier group in the South Caspian . Linguistic evidence supports this scenario, in that the Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages) share...
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