Transeurasian archaeolinguistics

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Abstract The classification of the Transeurasian languages as a family consisting of Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages is gradually gaining acceptance in linguistic literature. This chapter aims at summarizing linguistic inferences with regard to the dating of the root and the nodes in the family, the location of the homeland, and the reconstruction of subsistence vocabulary. Bringing together linguistic results with those from archaeology and genetics, it presents evidence for population movements associated with agriculture in Neolithic and Bronze Age northeast Asia. As such, this chapter challenges the traditional pastoralist hypothesis for Transeurasian origins and brings the case of the Transeurasian languages into line with the Farming/Language Dispersal hypothesis. Bringing the three disciplines together, this chapter provides a more balanced and richer understanding of Transeurasian dispersals than each of the three disciplines could provide individually.

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