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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages
العنوان: | Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages |
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المؤلفون: | Benedict King, Simon J. Greenhill, Lawrence A. Reid, Malcolm Ross, Mary Walworth, Russell D. Gray |
المصدر: | Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | Nature Portfolio, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Language phylogenies, Language evolution, Linguistics, Austronesian, Migration, Philippines, Medicine, Science |
الوصف: | Abstract The Philippines are central to understanding the expansion of the Austronesian language family from its homeland in Taiwan. It remains unknown to what extent the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian languages has been shaped by back migrations and language leveling events following the initial Out-of-Taiwan expansion. Other aspects of language history, including the effect of language switching from non-Austronesian languages, also remain poorly understood. Here we apply Bayesian phylogenetic methods to a core-vocabulary dataset of Philippine languages. Our analysis strongly supports a sister group relationship between the Sangiric and Minahasan groups of northern Sulawesi on one hand, and the rest of the Philippine languages on the other, which is incompatible with a simple North-to-South dispersal from Taiwan. We find a pervasive geographical signal in our results, suggesting a dominant role for cultural diffusion in the evolution of Philippine languages. However, we do find some support for a later migration of Gorontalo-Mongondow languages to northern Sulawesi from the Philippines. Subsequent diffusion processes between languages in Sulawesi appear to have led to conflicting data and a highly unstable phylogenetic position for Gorontalo-Mongondow. In the Philippines, language switching to Austronesian in ‘Negrito’ groups appears to have occurred at different time-points throughout the Philippines, and based on our analysis, there is no discernible effect of language switching on the basic vocabulary. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-024-65810-x |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/0d7db3f2802e4d34842460f8bdafaadd |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.0d7db3f2802e4d34842460f8bdafaadd |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 20452322 |
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DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-024-65810-x |