Posted on 11/16/2021 10:39:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The origins of a family of languages including modern Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Mongolian date back some 9,000 years to millet farmers that inhabited northeastern China, a study found after evaluating linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence... Millet was an important early crop as hunter-gatherers transitioned to an agricultural lifestyle.
There are 98 Transeurasian languages. Among these are Korean and Japanese as well as various Turkic languages including Turkish in parts of Europe, Anatolia, Central Asia and Siberia; various Mongolic languages including Mongolian in Central and Northeast Asia; and various Tungusic languages in Manchuria and Siberia.
This language family's beginnings were traced to Neolithic millet farmers in the Liao River valley, an area encompassing parts of the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the region of Inner Mongolia. As these farmers moved across northeastern Asia, the descendant languages spread north and west into Siberia and the steppes and east into the Korean peninsula and over the sea to the Japanese archipelago over thousands of years...
The researchers devised a dataset of vocabulary concepts for the 98 languages, identified a core of inherited words related to agriculture and fashioned a language family tree...
For example, a woman's remains found in Yokchido in South Korea had 95% ancestry from Japan's ancient Jomon people, indicating her recent ancestors had migrated over the sea.
The origins of modern Chinese languages arose independently, though in a similar fashion with millet also involved. While the progenitors of the Transeurasian languages grew broomcorn millet in the Liao River valley, the originators of the Sino-Tibetan language family farmed foxtail millet at roughly the same time in China's Yellow River region, paving the way for a separate language dispersal, Robbeets said.
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So the Empire of Japan was just occupying their ancient ancestral homeland when they claimed Manchuria?
Ping
Quite a few Russians were trapped behind the border long ago - they speak Mandarin and Russian
That was hotly debated, as was the connection to Japanese and Korean. Where things stand now, I couldn’t say.
It surprises me that Turkish could be related to the rest of those.
It’s very likely, but probably from a more remote origin, when the progenitors of both lived in Northern Central Asia, before the European branch migrated West and the East Asian branch migrated East.
The Turks were originally a tribe very closely related to the Mongols and living close to them before they invaded Anatolia.
I learn something new here every day.
Not really. Totally different language family.
I seem to recall an old old story about some folks building a tower
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