

  title={Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic},
  author={M. Zhang and Shi Yan and Wuyun Pan and L. Jin},
The study of language origin and divergence is important for understanding the history of human populations and their cultures. The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second largest in the world after Indo-European, and there is a long-running debate about its phylogeny and the time depth of its original divergence1. Here we perform a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis to examine two competing hypotheses of the origin of the Sino-Tibetan language family: the ‘northern-origin hypothesis’ and the… Expand
Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages
The phylogeny of the Sino-Tibetan language family is reconstructed, using Bayesian computational methods applied to a larger and linguistically more diverse sample, and it is found that the initial divergence of this group occurred earlier than previously suggested, at approximately 8000 years before the present. Expand
Peopling History of the Tibetan Plateau and Multiple Waves of Admixture of Tibetans Inferred From Both Ancient and Modern Genome-Wide Data
  • Guanglin He, Mengge Wang, +8 authors Hui‐Yuan Yeh
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • 2021
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Peopling of Tibet Plateau and multiple waves of admixture of Tibetans inferred from both modern and ancient genome-wide data
Closer genetic connection between ancient-modern highland Tibetans and lowland island/coastal Neolithic northern East Asians was identified, reflecting the main ancestry of high-altitude Tibeto-Burman speakers originated from the ancestors of Houli/Yangshao/Longshan ancients in the middle and lower Yellow River basin, consistent with the common North-China origin of Sino-Tibetan language and dispersal pattern of millet farmers. Expand
Fine‐scale genetic structure of Tujia and central Han Chinese revealing massive genetic admixture under language borrowing
Archaeological, genetic, and linguistic evidence has supported the idea that northern China is the original center of modern Sino‐Tibetan‐speaking populations. However, the demographic history ofExpand
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A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages
The Tungusic language family is comprised of languages spoken in Siberia, the Russian Far East, Northeast China and Xinjiang. There is a general consensus that these languages are genealogicallyExpand


Time and Place in the Prehistory of the Aslian Languages
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Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family
Both the inferred timing and root location of the Indo-European language trees fit with an agricultural expansion from Anatolia beginning 8000 to 9500 years ago, which supports the suggestion that the origin of the language family was indeed Anatolia 7 to 10 thousand years ago—contemporaneous with the spread of agriculture. Expand
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Since Sino-Tibetan (ST) is one of the greatest language families in the world-even Indo-European does not have more first-language speakers-it is sobering to realize that ST linguistics is only aboutExpand