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Palenque de San Basilio in Colombia: genetic data support an oral history of a paternal ancestry in Congo.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 30 Mar 2016
Ansari-Pour Naser, Moñino Yves, Duque Constanza, Gallego Natalia, Bedoya Gabriel, Thomas Mark G, Bradman Neil
Abstract excerpt
The Palenque, a black community in rural Colombia, have an oral history of fugitive African slaves founding a free village near Cartagena in the seventeenth century. Recently, linguists have identified some 200 words in regular use that originate in a Kikongo language, with Yombe, mainly spoken in the Congo region, being the most likely source. The non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) and...
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