macedon - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIAN POPULATIONS AND EUROPEANS 03

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIAN POPULATIONS AND EUROPEANS 03

Thursday, 7. September 2006, 17:35:29

Joseph Skulj, Jagdish C. Sharda, Snejina Sonina, Petr Jandacek
Hindu Institute of Learning

LANGUAGE AFFINITIES:

The well known geneticist Barbujani observes that humans do not tend to easily cross language boundaries when choosing a partner. This gives languages a great evolutionary significance, because linguistic affinities are also clues to population history. He cites Sokal who has noted that a common language frequently reflects a common origin, and a related language indicates a common origin too, but farther back in time. He was also one of the first to make an intriguing observation that the partial correlations with the language are stronger for the Y chromosome than for mtDNA and suggests that when women were incorporated into a group speaking a different language, they passed to the future generations, their husbands’ language (Barbujani, 2000).

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