Do surname differences mirror dialect variation?

Human Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-64

  Manni, Franz ^a   Heeringa, Wilbert ^b   Toupance, Bruno ^a   Nerbonne, John ^b  

^a MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barriers; Dialects; Genetics; Isolation by distance (IBD); Linguistics; Surnames; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 42649094169     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/1534-6617(2008)80[41:DSDMDV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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