23.3029, Media: DNA Evidence Supports Linguistic Classification

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LINGUIST List: Vol-23-3029. Thu Jul 12 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.3029, Media: DNA Evidence Supports Linguistic Classification

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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:38:33
From: Anthony Aristar [aristar at linguistlist.org]
Subject: NY Times: ''Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds''

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North and South America were first populated by three waves of 
migrants from Siberia rather than just a single migration, say 
researchers who have studied the whole genomes of Native Americans 
in South America and Canada.

The finding vindicates a proposal first made on linguistic grounds by 
Joseph Greenberg, the great classifier of the world's languages. He 
asserted in 1987 that most languages spoken in North and South 
America were derived from the single mother tongue of the first settlers 
from Siberia, which he called Amerind. Two later waves, he surmised, 
brought speakers of Eskimo-Aleut and of Na-Dene, the language family 
spoken by the Apache and Navajo.

Read the article here: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/science/earliest-americans-arrived-
in-3-waves-not-1-dna-study-finds.html?_r=3 


Linguistic Field(s): Genetic Classification
                     Historical Linguistics






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