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An inverse correlation between linguistic and genetic diversity
2024-12-20
Abstract excerpt
Human population history, as traced by our genome, has shaped the distribution of languages around the world. While case studies suggest that population history can also affect specific structures of languages, such as patterns in their sound systems and grammars, results are conflicting, and it remains unknown whether such effects hold globally. Here we show that, adjusting for geography, phylogeny, and envi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 855fc95a-3a39-5aba-9e31-a4f4c79b4be6
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.12.18.628602