Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian

McAlpin, David W.

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“…Although the present Brahui population could represent an ancient Indian Dravidian-speaking population relocated to Pakistan, where they admixed with local populations, no historical record supports this hypothesis. Thus, this suggests that they are the last northern survivors of a larger Dravidian-speaking region predating the arrival of Indo-Iranian speakers, thus reinforcing the proto-Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis (McAlpin 1974(McAlpin , 1981.…”

Section: Correlation Of Genes and Languages In The Southwestern Asianmentioning

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“…Historical records indicate that the Brahui are descendants of Turko-Iranian tribes from west Asia (Hughes-Buller 1991). Today, Dravidian languages are essentially restricted to south India and Sri Lanka, but the proto-Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis (McAlpin 1974(McAlpin , 1981 proposes that they originated in the Iranian province of Elam and were once spoken over a much larger area, including Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and all India. The Brahui population is characterized by high prevalences (55%) of western Eurasian mtDNAs and the lowest frequency in the region (21%) of haplogroup M*, which otherwise is common (∼60%) among Dravidian-speaking Indian populations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The highly urban Elamite civilization had close contacts with Mesopotamians but exhibited an extensive differentiation from the rest of the Fertile Crescent populations, including a language that is thought to belong to the Dravidian family. It is hypothesized that the proto-Elamo-Dravidian language (McAlpin 1974(McAlpin , 1981, spoken by the Elamites in southwestern Iran, spread eastwards with the movement of farmers from this region to the Indus Valley and the Indian subcontinent (Cavalli-Sforza et al 1994;Cavalli-Sforza 1996;Renfrew 1996). Starting ∼5,000 YBP, animal domestication, particularly the horse, gave the inhabitants of the Central Asian steppes the opportunity to expand geographically in different directions (Zvelebil 1980).…”

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Where West Meets East: The Complex mtDNA Landscape of the Southwest and Central Asian Corridor

Quintana-Murci

Chaix

Wells

et al. 2004

The American Journal of Human Genetics

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The southwestern and Central Asian corridor has played a pivotal role in the history of humankind, witnessing numerous waves of migration of different peoples at different times. To evaluate the effects of these population movements on the current genetic landscape of the Iranian plateau, the Indus Valley, and Central Asia, we have analyzed 910 mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) from 23 populations of the region. This study has allowed a refinement of the phylogenetic relationships of some lineages and the identification of new haplogroups in the southwestern and Central Asian mtDNA tree. Both lineage geographical distribution and spatial analysis of molecular variance showed that populations located west of the Indus Valley mainly harbor mtDNAs of western Eurasian origin, whereas those inhabiting the Indo-Gangetic region and Central Asia present substantial proportions of lineages that can be allocated to three different genetic components of western Eurasian, eastern Eurasian, and south Asian origin. In addition to the overall composite picture of lineage clusters of different origin, we observed a number of deep-rooting lineages, whose relative clustering and coalescent ages suggest an autochthonous origin in the southwestern Asian corridor during the Pleistocene. The comparison with Y-chromosome data revealed a highly complex genetic and demographic history of the region, which includes sexually asymmetrical mating patterns, founder effects, and female-specific traces of the East African slave trade.

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Section: Correlation Of Genes and Languages In The Southwestern Asianmentioning

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Section: Correlation Of Genes and Languages In The Southwestern Asianmentioning

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Where West Meets East: The Complex mtDNA Landscape of the Southwest and Central Asian Corridor

Quintana-Murci

Chaix

Wells

et al. 2004

The American Journal of Human Genetics

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353

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“…HG 9 (now known as haplogroup E) was found to be largely confined to Iranian, Levantine, North African and southern European (i.e., Mediterranean) populations. Quintani‐Murci et al comment that the clinal variation and haplotypic diversity of this Y‐lineage suggest the spread of farming was accompanied by a major population movement eastward toward the Indus Valley and beyond into the Indian subcontinent—a movement associated with the spread of Dravidian languages (Renfrew, 1996), which many scholars believe formed the basis of the as yet undeciphered Indus script (Fairservis & Southworth, 1989; Gurumurthy, 1999; Mathivanan, 1995; Parpola, 1986, 1994) from a proto‐Elamo‐Dravidian source in southwestern Iran (McAlpin, 1974, 1981). HG 9 coalescence was estimated to be nearly 13,000 BC (Derenko et al, 2013).…”

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The role of Hazarewal populations in the peopling of South Asia: A dental morphology investigation

Akbar

Ullah

Ahmad

et al. 2023

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Objectives: This study seeks to accomplish three objectives: assess the biological impact of historically documented Pathan-speaking populations on present-day Hazarewal ethnic groups, determine consilience in patterns of relationships identified by molecular genetics and dental morphology analyses, and determine which of the current models for the peopling of the Indian subcontinent is best supported by dental morphology analysis. Materials and Methods: Dental morphology traits were scored with the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System among living members of 18 ethnic group samples from South Asia in northern Pakistan and 13 prehistoric samples from south-central Asia and South Asia. Affinities were summarized with raw percentages and Smith's MMD. Affinities based on the former were accomplished with correspondence analysis and principal components analysis. Affinities based on the latter were undertaken with neighbor-joining cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. Results: Biodistances based on 17 tooth-trait combinations suggest the human biological history in South Asia is dominated by long-standing continuity, but this continuity is not absolute. There is no evidence for influx of Central Asians or Pathan influences on Hazarewal ethnic groups. Instead, gene flow likely occurred, albeit from other sources, near the beginning of the Holocene and at the beginning of the Iron Age. Discussion: Consilience in results obtained with molecular genetics and dental morphology analyses is good. Both indicate long-standing population continuity over time and clinal variation emanating from Hazarewal to the south and east. However, dental morphology suggests an early Holocene influx of exogenous genes, perhaps from southern Iran, while ruling out a steppe-based influx during the mid-2nd millennium BC.

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“…Le matériel inclus dans cet article reprend une définition relativement large du nostratique, comprenant, outre les six familles incluses dans le dictionnaire d'Illič-Svityč (indo-européen, ouralien, altaïque, dravidien, kartvélien et afroasiatique), d'autres familles pour lesquelles une origine nostratique a été proposée, telles que l'esquimau-aléoutien, le tchouktchi-kamtchatkan, le gilyak ou l'élamite (pour ce dernier, dans la mesure où une proche parenté avec le dravidien a été suggérée, notamment par McAlpin [1974aMcAlpin [ , 1974bMcAlpin [ , 1975McAlpin [ , 1981 et Zvelebil [1974Zvelebil [ et, moins directement, 1999), non seulement par Bomhard & Kerns (1994) et Bomhard (1996), mais également par Dolgopolsky ( ], 1984. Peut-être faut-il de plus rappeler qu'Illič-Svityč lui-même n'excluait pas la parenté éventuelle d'autres familles linguistiques au nostratique que celles retenues dans son dictionnaire, même s'il ne choisit d'y inclure que les familles dont le matériel lui semblait le plus prometteur (Ivanov 1986: 51).…”

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Supplétion et récurrence des thèmes pronominaux nostratiques

Cavoto

2003

DIA

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In this paper, it is shown that most of the language families claimed to derive from a common Nostratic protolanguage exhibit complex pronominal systems characterized by intricate patterns of recurrence and suppletion in the personal, demonstrative and possibly interrogative pronominal stems. The analysis proposed here, employing the strict principles of the comparative method, shows that these patterns are probably not due to coincidence but rather represent a new argument in favor of the Nostratic hypothesis.

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Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian

Cited by 36 publications

References 13 publications

Where West Meets East: The Complex mtDNA Landscape of the Southwest and Central Asian Corridor

Where West Meets East: The Complex mtDNA Landscape of the Southwest and Central Asian Corridor

The role of Hazarewal populations in the peopling of South Asia: A dental morphology investigation

Supplétion et récurrence des thèmes pronominaux nostratiques

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