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Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography

  • Shomarka Omar Keita
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In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory
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Abstract

While it is known and must be emphasised that language, biology, and culture do not travel as an obligatory package, this does not mean that congruence never exists and may be historically meaningful. In this paper the published Y chromosome data and branches of the Afro-Asiatic language family for which good genetic data exist were examined in an exploratory fashion to determine if there are patterns suggestive of overlap. Most of the Afro-Asiatic speakers shared the lineage defined by Yap descendant called PN2/215/M35. It was further found that that a key lineage – the M35/78 was shared between the populations in the locale of original Egyptian speakers and modern Cushitic speakers from the Horn. Amazigh (Berber) speakers had a high frequency of M35/81. Semitic speakers in the Near East had a higher frequency of non-Yap lineages defined by the M89 mutation, but some M35/M78 is found at a lower frequency in the Near East (vs supra-Saharan Africa). The data for Omotic and Chadic speakers is of poor quality due to sample size. The paper discusses some possible implications of the observed pattern and the need for better data.

Abstract

While it is known and must be emphasised that language, biology, and culture do not travel as an obligatory package, this does not mean that congruence never exists and may be historically meaningful. In this paper the published Y chromosome data and branches of the Afro-Asiatic language family for which good genetic data exist were examined in an exploratory fashion to determine if there are patterns suggestive of overlap. Most of the Afro-Asiatic speakers shared the lineage defined by Yap descendant called PN2/215/M35. It was further found that that a key lineage – the M35/78 was shared between the populations in the locale of original Egyptian speakers and modern Cushitic speakers from the Horn. Amazigh (Berber) speakers had a high frequency of M35/81. Semitic speakers in the Near East had a higher frequency of non-Yap lineages defined by the M89 mutation, but some M35/M78 is found at a lower frequency in the Near East (vs supra-Saharan Africa). The data for Omotic and Chadic speakers is of poor quality due to sample size. The paper discusses some possible implications of the observed pattern and the need for better data.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword ix
  4. Acknowledgments xiii
  5. Photographs xv
  6. Works of Harold Crane Fleming xix
  7. Part I. African peoples
  8. Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography 3
  9. A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV 17
  10. African weeks 25
  11. Part II. African languages – synchronic studies
  12. Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla 39
  13. Riddling in Gidole 49
  14. Part III. African languages – Classification and prehistory
  15. Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages 57
  16. The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules 149
  17. Erosion in Chadic 161
  18. On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages 169
  19. The problem of pan-African roots 189
  20. Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas
  21. Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers 213
  22. Some Old World experience of linguistic dating 223
  23. The languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation 241
  24. Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia 263
  25. Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific 287
  26. Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary? 309
  27. Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies 321
  28. Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language
  29. Current topics in human evolutionary genetics 343
  30. A wild 50,000-year ride 359
  31. Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language? 373
  32. The origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism 381
  33. Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution 401
  34. The age of Mama and Papa 417
  35. The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals 439
  36. General index 465
  37. Index of languages and languages families 471
  38. Index of scholars discussed 475
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.145.05kei

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword ix
  4. Acknowledgments xiii
  5. Photographs xv
  6. Works of Harold Crane Fleming xix
  7. Part I. African peoples
  8. Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography 3
  9. A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV 17
  10. African weeks 25
  11. Part II. African languages – synchronic studies
  12. Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla 39
  13. Riddling in Gidole 49
  14. Part III. African languages – Classification and prehistory
  15. Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages 57
  16. The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules 149
  17. Erosion in Chadic 161
  18. On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages 169
  19. The problem of pan-African roots 189
  20. Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas
  21. Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers 213
  22. Some Old World experience of linguistic dating 223
  23. The languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation 241
  24. Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia 263
  25. Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific 287
  26. Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary? 309
  27. Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies 321
  28. Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language
  29. Current topics in human evolutionary genetics 343
  30. A wild 50,000-year ride 359
  31. Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language? 373
  32. The origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism 381
  33. Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution 401
  34. The age of Mama and Papa 417
  35. The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals 439
  36. General index 465
  37. Index of languages and languages families 471
  38. Index of scholars discussed 475
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