20.08.2021New paper: Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia

Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team under UZH’s lead has now traced families of related languages over more than 10,000 years by combining data from genetics, linguistics and musicology using novel digital methods. Their findings: grammar reflects best the common prehistory of a population and therefore mirrors genetics more than any other cultural feature.

Link to press release of the UZH from 19.08.2021

Link to publication in ScienceAdvances: DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd9223