Modeling ancient population structures and movement in linguistics

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 26, Issue , 1997, Pages 359-384

  Nichols, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Language dispersal; Language family; Language spread; Linguistic diversity; Linguistic geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002504612     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.359     Document Type: Article

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