Tian Chen Zeng

“extensive language change would have likely involved migration — or at the very least the integration of a substantial fraction of linguistic newcomers into populations across a region — to a level that is likely to leave some genetic impact.”

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Zeng argued that major language shifts typically involved migration that left genetic traces.

“Yakutia_LNBA ancestry is the only East Asian ancestry present in the genetic makeup of almost all present and ancient Uralic-speaking populations.”

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Zeng noted that Yakutia_LNBA is the sole East Asian ancestry found across almost all Uralic-speaking populations.

“Neighboring populations speaking Indo-European languages tend not to have Yakutia_LNBA ancestry, or any other kind of East Asian ancestry,”

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Zeng explained that neighboring Indo-European speaking populations generally lack Yakutia_LNBA ancestry.

“A straightforward interpretation of this is that Yakutia_LNBA ancestry dispersed from East to West alongside the Uralic languages,”

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Zeng discussed how Yakutia_LNBA ancestry may have spread westward alongside Uralic languages.

“it is extremely likely that ancient populations were multilingual.”

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Zeng acknowledged that ancient human populations were very likely multilingual.