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To: Verginius Rufus
Thanks for the info. I wonder why the Dravidians are showing the same marker as the Munda speakers when they seem to be unrelated groups?
16 posted on 09/22/2008 3:36:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: colorado tanker

Perhaps the Munda-speakers ancestors were there first, and the Dravidian-speakers’ ancestors had Dravidian imposed on them by a small number of conquerors. Compare how Spanish became the first language of large parts of Latin America where the people are mostly descended from the pre-1492 population, or how Haitians speak a French creole despite being almost entirely of African ancestry—DNA testing would no doubt show much closer affinities to people speaking unrelated languages in West Africa than to people in France.


22 posted on 09/22/2008 7:14:15 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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