14.2498, Media: Re Genetic Clicks: Article

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Subject: 14.2498, Media: Re Genetic Clicks: Article

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Date:  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:15:49 -0400
From:  Marc Picard <picard at vax2.concordia.ca>
Subject:  Genetic Clicks

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Date:  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:15:49 -0400
From:  Marc Picard <picard at vax2.concordia.ca>
Subject:  Genetic Clicks

Re Linguist 14.2493
Stephen Schaufele wrote:

>
> In this month's issue of _Discover_, there's an item about some
> research by geneticists Alec Knight and Joanna Mountain, originally
> reported in March in _Current Biology_, on the presence of clicks in
> the languages of the Hadzabe people of Tanzania and the Juj'haonsi of
> `southwestern Africa' (Namibia? can't seem to find it in my copy of
> the _Ethnologue_).  It is apparently suggested that the fact that
> these two ethnic groups, otherwise quite unrelated to each other
> (genetically), both have clicks in their languages must mean that the
> clicks are inherited from the language of their last common ancestor,
> which Knight & Mountain estimate must have flourished over 40,000
> years ago.
>

You can find a synopsis of this proposal at
http://www.discover.com/sep_03/breakhunt.html
Don't let it spoil your weekend.

Marc Picard

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