Cargando…
Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission
Languages are transmitted through channels created by kinship systems. Given sufficient time, these kinship channels can change the genetic and linguistic structure of populations. In traditional societies of eastern Indonesia, finely resolved cophylogenies of languages and genes reveal persistent m...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
National Academy of Sciences
2017
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706416114 |
_version_ | 1783285330244272128 |
---|---|
author | Lansing, J. Stephen Abundo, Cheryl Jacobs, Guy S. Guillot, Elsa G. Thurner, Stefan Downey, Sean S. Chew, Lock Yue Bhattacharya, Tanmoy Chung, Ning Ning Sudoyo, Herawati Cox, Murray P. |
author_facet | Lansing, J. Stephen Abundo, Cheryl Jacobs, Guy S. Guillot, Elsa G. Thurner, Stefan Downey, Sean S. Chew, Lock Yue Bhattacharya, Tanmoy Chung, Ning Ning Sudoyo, Herawati Cox, Murray P. |
author_sort | Lansing, J. Stephen |
collection | PubMed |
description | Languages are transmitted through channels created by kinship systems. Given sufficient time, these kinship channels can change the genetic and linguistic structure of populations. In traditional societies of eastern Indonesia, finely resolved cophylogenies of languages and genes reveal persistent movements between stable speech communities facilitated by kinship rules. When multiple languages are present in a region and postmarital residence rules encourage sustained directional movement between speech communities, then languages should be channeled along uniparental lines. We find strong evidence for this pattern in 982 individuals from 25 villages on two adjacent islands, where different kinship rules have been followed. Core groups of close relatives have stayed together for generations, while remaining in contact with, and marrying into, surrounding groups. Over time, these kinship systems shaped their gene and language phylogenies: Consistently following a postmarital residence rule turned social communities into speech communities. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-5724253 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2017 |
publisher | National Academy of Sciences |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-57242532017-12-11 Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission Lansing, J. Stephen Abundo, Cheryl Jacobs, Guy S. Guillot, Elsa G. Thurner, Stefan Downey, Sean S. Chew, Lock Yue Bhattacharya, Tanmoy Chung, Ning Ning Sudoyo, Herawati Cox, Murray P. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Social Sciences Languages are transmitted through channels created by kinship systems. Given sufficient time, these kinship channels can change the genetic and linguistic structure of populations. In traditional societies of eastern Indonesia, finely resolved cophylogenies of languages and genes reveal persistent movements between stable speech communities facilitated by kinship rules. When multiple languages are present in a region and postmarital residence rules encourage sustained directional movement between speech communities, then languages should be channeled along uniparental lines. We find strong evidence for this pattern in 982 individuals from 25 villages on two adjacent islands, where different kinship rules have been followed. Core groups of close relatives have stayed together for generations, while remaining in contact with, and marrying into, surrounding groups. Over time, these kinship systems shaped their gene and language phylogenies: Consistently following a postmarital residence rule turned social communities into speech communities. National Academy of Sciences 2017-12-05 2017-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5724253/ /pubmed/29158378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706416114 Text en Copyright © 2017 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Social Sciences Lansing, J. Stephen Abundo, Cheryl Jacobs, Guy S. Guillot, Elsa G. Thurner, Stefan Downey, Sean S. Chew, Lock Yue Bhattacharya, Tanmoy Chung, Ning Ning Sudoyo, Herawati Cox, Murray P. Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission |
title | Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission |
title_full | Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission |
title_fullStr | Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission |
title_full_unstemmed | Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission |
title_short | Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission |
title_sort | kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission |
topic | Social Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706416114 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT lansingjstephen kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT abundocheryl kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT jacobsguys kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT guillotelsag kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT thurnerstefan kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT downeyseans kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT chewlockyue kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT bhattacharyatanmoy kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT chungningning kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT sudoyoherawati kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission AT coxmurrayp kinshipstructurescreatepersistentchannelsforlanguagetransmission |