Kusunda: An Indo-Pacific language in Nepal
| Autor: | Paul Whitehouse, Timothy Usher, Merritt Ruhlen, William S.-Y. Wang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Pacific Ocean Multidisciplinary South asia Population Social Sciences New guinea Pacific ocean Evolution Molecular Indian ocean Genetics Population Geography Nepal Population Groups Tribe Humans Ethnology education Indian Ocean Indo-Pacific Language |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101:5692-5695 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.0400233101 |
| Popis: | The Kusunda people of central Nepal have long been regarded as a relic tribe of South Asia. They are, or were until recently, seminomadic hunter-gatherers, living in jungles and forests, with a language that shows no similarities to surrounding languages. They are often described as shorter and darker than neighboring tribes. Our research indicates that the Kusunda language is a member of the Indo-Pacific family. This is a surprising finding inasmuch as the Indo-Pacific family is located on New Guinea and surrounding islands. The possibility that Kusunda is a remnant of the migration that led to the initial peopling of New Guinea and Australia warrants additional investigation from both a linguistic and genetic perspective. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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