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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages

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العنوان: Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages
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
الوصف
تدمد:20452322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-65810-x