Showing posts with label indo aryan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indo aryan. Show all posts

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Ancestry trends of 150+ groups from the Indian subcontinent



In this article, I will lay out general ancestry trends of 150+ groups from the Indian subcontinent. And try to make it make sense to a lay audience.

Before I present the data table, there are some important caveats:

1. The purpose of the table is to concurrently compare the ancestry trends for 100+ groups of the Indian subcontinent. If the chosen sources are incorrect, they will be incorrect for all the groups but will still allow us to compare ancestry % across groups and make some conclusions. The fit (distance %) is not too relevant, and the distances of some groups will indeed be bad (>3%). However, that does not take away from our purpose of finding broad trends within the data.

Monday, November 29, 2021

The West/East Divide among Indo-Aryan languages

Came upon two linguistic papers which clarify the relationship of Aryan languages of India with the other old language families, namely Dravidian & Munda families.

india language family map
Language Family map of India