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Languages containing sounds called ejectives are more common in high-altitude regions (dark circles represent languages with ejectives, clear circles represent those without ejectives). The way ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —The popularity of genetic and ancestry services like Ancestry.com and 23andMe attests that people care about where their ancestors originated. The underlying assumption is that ...

In the present study, we analyzed new mtDNA data of 10 Isan ethnicities speaking languages belonging to two major families, namely the Tai-Kadai (Saek, Nyaw, Phu Tai, Kaleung, and Lao Isan) and the ...

Cultural geography / Carl O. Saucer -- Rise of cultural geography in America / Robert S. Platt -- Role of historical explanation in human geography / Max Sorre -- Cultural boundaries and ethnographic ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The thatched roof held back the sun's rays, but it could not keep the tropical heat at bay. As everyone at the ...

Toponymy and toponomastics are very significant branches of etymology and the onomastic sciences in general. They are interdisciplinary in nature, associating, among others, historical linguistics ...

WHY do some places in the world have lots of small languages, and others have fewer, bigger languages? Earlier studies seemed to show that areas of high altitude, rainfall and temperature had high ...