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Kiwi Linguists Chart Man’s Journey Across the Pacific

Kiwi Linguists Chart Man’s Journey Across the Pacific

University of Auckland linguists Russell Gray and Fiona Jordan, “may have solved one of the greatest mysteries in human prehistory – how people managed to colonise the Pacific”. Writing in the journal Nature they analysed 77 languages for the evolutionary traces they betray.

Tags: Fiona Jordan  Independent (The)  language development  linguistics  Nature  Russell Gray  The Pacific  University of Auckland  

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