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

Marcus Smith wrote:

> 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)
Just checked:  it's Cavalli-Sforza.  (Not that it matters or anything.)

> 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.
Well, the controversial bit was that the three major groupings he found
corresponded very closely to the three linguistic groupings posited by
Greenberg.  Controversial, anyways, for the linguists;  I'm not sure the
biologists had a particular opinion about it.

> >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. :) )
That would depend on what you consider "speculation".  I seriously doubt
that any linguist who holds a position at a respectable university would
posit a link between IE and Ainu.   Edo-Nyland-types, however, make a living
out of it.  (That's:  <http://culturalpursuits.bc.ca/~edonon/linguist.htm>.)

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