In the previous dispatch I tried to extract a Pleistocene population history signal from phonemic data for subaltern languages. Does this approach actually work? One way to check is to run the exact same algorithm for a well-known phylum. In what follows we'll extract a phylogram for Indo-European. As we shall see, there is a very strong population history signal in phonemic distance metrics.
Indo-European Phylogeny
Indo-European Phylogeny
Indo-European Phylogeny
In the previous dispatch I tried to extract a Pleistocene population history signal from phonemic data for subaltern languages. Does this approach actually work? One way to check is to run the exact same algorithm for a well-known phylum. In what follows we'll extract a phylogram for Indo-European. As we shall see, there is a very strong population history signal in phonemic distance metrics.