Discussion Details
| Title: | Tones and Genes |
| Submitter: | Hal Schiffman |
| Description: | My reaction to the report on a putative connection between tone languages
and genetics was that there are tonal languages like modern Tibetan that were originally non-tonal, i.e. Classical Tibetan has no tones. Would the genetic hypothesis claim that the genes of Tibetans have changed radically in the last two millennia? |
| Date Posted: | 04-Jun-2007 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics Phonology Neurolinguistics |
| LL Issue: | 18.1697 |
| Posted: | 04-Jun-2007 |
