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Re: Korean/Japanese/Inupiaq/Aleut/Yupik/Samenoid(sp)

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Monday, August 21, 2000, 6:40
Mike Adams wrote:

>I wonder if anyone has done blood work, and like to see how the blood >groups have moved around. I know this it not "language" related, but it >can tell alot of how different groups moved around, and likely ancient >connections. Noticed alot of Native Alaskan (Western, namely "Eskimos") >that they share "A" blood type that you see alot in Japan.
Cavali-Svorza (I believe that's the spelling) has worked at a genetic family tree of all the races. There is lots of interesting stuff related to Native Americans, but since genetics is not something I understand really well, I can't recall most of it. Unusually large groupings around a small number of alleles, suggestive that there was a small number of original settlers who were closely related. Can't recall anything else.
>Okinawa maybe.. Any relations to how the Ainu came about, there is >related lingos on the Kamchatka penninsula last I heard.
No languages are proven to be related to Ainu. Lots of speculation though. Japanese, Altaic, even Indo-European. (They must not have actually looked at the language for that last one. :) ) Marcus