HOW IT ALL STARTED 9000 YEARS AGO
The cross-disciplinary studies on the Beginning of the languages and cultures in Northeast Asia Recently two pivotal articles were published as for the origins of the two language families used in the East Asia. In May 2019 the result of inter-disciplinary study on the origin and dispersal process of Sino-Tibetan language was published in the PNAS journal while the same subject on the Transeurasian language family was dealt in a more comprehensive study comprising linguistics, archaeology and genetics with the result released in Nature in November 2021. First, the origin and disersal of Sino-Tibetan languages The study on the Sino-Tibetan languages for the PNAS journal article was led by Max Planck Institute for Science of Human History in collaboration with two French Research Institutes: Centre des Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale and the Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques de la Décision. T...