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Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages
We study the correlation between phylogenetic and geographic distances for the languages of the Andic branch of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. For several alternative phylogenies, we find that geographic distances correlate with linguistic divergence. Notably, qualitative cl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9135239/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35617249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265460 |
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author | Koile, Ezequiel Chechuro, Ilia Moroz, George Daniel, Michael |
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description | We study the correlation between phylogenetic and geographic distances for the languages of the Andic branch of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. For several alternative phylogenies, we find that geographic distances correlate with linguistic divergence. Notably, qualitative classifications show a better fit with geography than cognacy-based phylogenies. We interpret this result as follows: The better fit may be due to implicit geographic bias in qualitative classifications. We conclude that approaches to classification other than those based on cognacy run a risk to implicitly include geography and geography-related factors as one basis of genealogical classifications. |
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spelling | pubmed-91352392022-05-27 Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages Koile, Ezequiel Chechuro, Ilia Moroz, George Daniel, Michael PLoS One Research Article We study the correlation between phylogenetic and geographic distances for the languages of the Andic branch of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. For several alternative phylogenies, we find that geographic distances correlate with linguistic divergence. Notably, qualitative classifications show a better fit with geography than cognacy-based phylogenies. We interpret this result as follows: The better fit may be due to implicit geographic bias in qualitative classifications. We conclude that approaches to classification other than those based on cognacy run a risk to implicitly include geography and geography-related factors as one basis of genealogical classifications. Public Library of Science 2022-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9135239/ /pubmed/35617249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265460 Text en © 2022 Koile et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Koile, Ezequiel Chechuro, Ilia Moroz, George Daniel, Michael Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages |
title | Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages |
title_full | Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages |
title_fullStr | Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages |
title_full_unstemmed | Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages |
title_short | Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages |
title_sort | geography and language divergence: the case of andic languages |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9135239/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35617249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265460 |
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