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Adiachroniclinguis/cgeographyforUralicandwhatarchaeologyandgene/csmightcontributeJohannaNichols [email protected],BerkeleyLinguis?cConvergenceLaboratory,HigherSchoolofEconomics,MoscowUniversityofHelsinki
Linguis(cs,Archaeology,&Gene(cs2:TheoriginandexpansionsofUralic-speakingpopula(onsMPI-SHH,Jena Nov.29-Dec.1,2017
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Previousslide:TheUralmountains.Ques?ons:
DidspeakersofProto-Uraliceverseethesemountains?hearaboutthem?
Ifso,fromeastorwest?
Andfromhomeorondistanttravels?Likelyanswertoall:Yes.
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DatefortheUralicdispersal;fortheFinno-UgricdispersalLoca?onofUralichomeland;Finno-UgrichomelandCause(s)andmechanism(s)oftheUralicspreadOutlineofargument:LanguagemovementtrajectoriesonandaroundtheEurasiansteppeTheFurRoadUralictypology,Indo-EuropeancontactsProto-UralicandProto-Finno-Ugricinspaceand?meContacts
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TheEurasiansteppeisaspreadzoneAccre?onzonesatthesteppeperipheryNorthwardspreadsfromthesteppe-forestinterface
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TheEurasiansteppespreadzone
Dominantspreaddirec?oneasttowest--fromtheBronzeAgeon.Earlier,morecomplex;domes?ca?onfron?erspreadW>EfromWsteppe.
Easttowest:Iranian,Turkic(severallanguageseach),Mongolic
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Acrosstheen?reforest-steppeecotone,languagesspreadnorth:Germanic,Saami,Finnic,Permian,Khanty,Samoyedic,Yeniseian,Turkic,Tungusic
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Turkiclanguages.Sakha/Yakut(red)representsanorthwardspread.
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Uraliclanguages Dashedline:FormersouthernlimitofUralic;compactlyUralictothenorth.S?ppledoval:approximateformerrangeofex?nctSouthernSamoyedic.Northwardspreads:Saami;Finnic;Permic;Khanty;Samoyedic
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Accre?onzones(a.k.a.residualzones)
Airactorloca?ons:languagesentermoreokenthantheyleave;moreokensurvivethanokengoex?nct;undergocontactbutnotmuchshik.Minimalspreadinginsidethearea.Result:diverseandoldlanguagepopula?ons.
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Accre?onzones,cont.
Languagesmovein;rarelymoveout.
Caucasus:Nospreadsout.Balkan:Nospreadsout(sincetheoriginalspreadofagriculture).ECircum-Bal?c:OnlySaami-Finnic(northwardspread)MiddleVolga:MaybePermicnorthwardspread(iffromnearby)UpperYenisei:Samoyedicnorthwardspread;Yeniseiannorthwardspread
Center-of-gravityillusion:
Distantsistersfromdistantpartsofthecatchmentzoneendupintheaccre?onzone(apile-up).Examples:
AllfourbranchesofIranianrepresentedinCentralAsianMountains(Edelman1968)
BothTurkicbranchesarefoundintheMiddleVolgaarea(Chuvash,Tatar)SeveralIEbranchesinBalkanpeninsulaAllBal?clanguagesintheECircum-Bal?carea
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Summaryonaccre?onzones
Theymaylooklikecentersofphylogene?cgravity,butthesearesecondaryaccumula?ons.Placingaproto-homelandinanaccre?onzoneisriskyandrequiresverystrongargumenta?on
(muchstrongerargumentthanmerephylogene?cdiversityinthearea)Especiallyriskywhenthataccre?onzoneisattheedgeofamajorspreadzone
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userSticky NoteTehát a finnugor nyelvek keletkezési helye nem az erdő zóna, hanem a sztyeppe!
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TheFurRoad(Barfield2009)
InthenorthernU.S.-southernCanada,extensivetradenetworksalongrivers
archaeologically(near-)invisibleprobablyaccountsforatleastsomeoftheAlgonquianspreadback-and-forthdominanceofCreeandOjibweinprotohistoricaland
historical?mesamajortradeitem:Plainsbuffalohides
IntheEurasianforest-steppezonenorthofthewesternandcentralsteppe,FurRoadranalongthemajoreast-westrivers.Economicmechanism:FursfromnorthernforeststradedtoEuropeanandsteppewealthy.Traders,tradingposts,tradecoloniesalongtherivers.
Majortradehubsatconfluenceswithnorth-flowingrivers.Tradelanguagespreadalongrivers,andwasadoptedbyhuntersclosestto
tradingposts.Gradualnorthwardspread.Likelymechanism:localchiefs'daughtersmarryrichtraders (aswithFrenchfurfranchisesinNorthAmerica)
Barfield2009;Ives2003,2006,others;Nichols&Rhodesinpress
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Uralic languages Dashed line: Former southern limit of Uralic. Compactly Uralic to thenorth.S?ppledoval:approximateformerrangeofex?nctSouthernSamoyedic.
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Uraliclanguages Bluesolidline:FurRoad.
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Uraliclanguages Circles:approximatebranchhomelands
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Arenorthwardspreadsinevitable?(Arespreadstohigherla?tudesinevitable?)
NottheruleinNorthAmerica.
Athabaskan SouthwardAlgonquian PredominantlyeastwardSiouan westtoPlainsSalish Radial(north,south,inland)Chinookan Upriver(east)"Penu?an"families Westandsouth
NottheruleinAfrica,SouthAmerica*PartlyinAustralia*
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WhynorthwardonlyinEurasia?
Furtrade,fromnorthernforeststosteppeandEurope(alsoamber,metals,finishedmetalitemseast-west)vs.Buffalohidetrade,PlainstoelsewhereBarfield2009;Ives2003,2007,others
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Proto-Uralictypologicalgeography
Typologically,Proto-Uralicclusterswiththe(greater)PacificRimpopula?onoflanguage
Highcausa?va?on,inflec?onalperson,fairlyhighPOSflexibility,head-final,…andProto-Indo-Europeanclusterswith(whatcanbeextrapolatedto)thewesternEurasianpopula?on(andbothPUandPIEbelongtothenorthernEurasianlinguis?cpopula?on)
Nichols2007,2017
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Anexample(oneofseveraltypologicalvariableswiththisdistribu?on)
Realiza?onofthecausa?vealterna?on
'sitdown' 'seat,have/let/makesit'
Spanish sentar=se sentar (decausa?vizing) seat=REFL seat
Ingush wa-xou wa-xoa-d.u (causa?vizing) down-sit down-sit-CAUS
(blue=relevantderiva?onalmorphology)
Thesearetwoofseveralpossiblepaiernsofderiva?on.Grünthal&Nichols2017,Grünthaletal.inprogress,Nicholsetal.2004,…,Nedjalkov1969
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Anotherexample:Inflec?onalperson(theextenttowhichthecategoryofpersonbehaveslikeinflec?onalmorphology,vs.likelexicalitems)
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WhatAfanasievo*tellsusaboutSamoyedicandearlyIE
3earlyeastwardoutpostsofIE,inchronologicalorder:
Afanasievo(upperYenisei)(fromYamnayaculture) Languageunknown,materialcultureearlyIEAndronovo(NEUrals,NKazakhstan)(maybefromAbashevo) Proto-Indo-IraniantoearlyIndo-IranianTocharian(TarimBasin)(entryrouteanddateunknown) IAMC(InnerAsianMountainCorridor;Frache|)entryroutenotimpossible IsolatebranchofIE
GiventhemobilityoftheIEfron?er,andofpastoralcultures,noreasontoequateTocharianwithAfanasievojustbecausebothareeasternoutliers.
2Pre-TocharianwordsinProto-Samoyed(Janhunen1983),butnoreasontoassumetheywereborroweddirectlyfromanadjacentneighbor;bothmayhavespreadwidely.
Conclusion:Proto-SamoyedicwasprobablysomewhereinorneartheMinusinskBasin.Pre-Tocharianwasinfluen?al,orasourceoftradeitems,inthevicinity.
*Afanasievo:veryYamnaya-likepre-AndronovositeinMinusinskbasin.Somehowthissocietyleapfroggedacrosstheen?recentralsteppewhileitwass?lloccupiedbyhunter-gatherers.
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WhattheProto-/earlyIndo-IranianloansintoProto-/earlyFinno-Ugrictellus
I-IwordsvarychronologicallyfromProto-I-ItoearlyIndicandearlyIranian.DifferentlydistributedoverthedifferentFinno-Ugricbranches.NoneinSamoyedic.Conclusion:I-Iinfluencecon?nuedoversome?meandaffectedageographicallydispersedsetofearlyFinno-Ugricdialects(branchancestors)unevenly.Likelyinterpreta?on:Finno-Ugricdialectsextendedoverasizablestretchofthenorthernfron?erofIranianspeech.
IranianexpandedveryrapidlyfromNEKazakhstantotheen?recentralsteppeandeasternpartofthewesternsteppe.Longnorthernfron?erforIranian.
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ThemiddleVolgaandlaterFinno-Ugricchronology Poli?calmap,reflec?ngUraliclanguagerangesfairlywell
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ThemiddleVolgaandlaterFinno-Ugricchronology
Pre-mid1stcenturyCE:VariousFinno-Ugrictribes(andlanguagesordialects)inthearea.BulgarseilementsfromlowerVolgabegin7thcentury.MariunderBulgarinfuenceby8thcentury.PowerfulBulgarstate,9thcenturyMari-Bulgarintensecontact,someabsorp?onofMarigroupsbyTatar-Bashkirinfluencefrom13thcenturyonMovementsofindigenouspeopleunderpressurefromBulgars,Tatars,Russia
MarimovestorightbankofVolga;laterMeadowMariemigra?oneastwardProto-Mordvinmovestocurrentloca?on(fromprobablyclosertotheVolga)
Conclusions:TherewasmorethanoneFinno-Ugrictribe(andlanguage?)intheareaintheearlyindigenouspopula?on.Chuvash(Bulgar)absorbedmorethanoneofthem.Possiblyevenwholeaddi?onalbranchesofFinno-Ugricinthisaccre?onzone.
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userSticky NoteLám-lám, a nyelvészeknél is használható fogalom a "finnugor törzs/nép"
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1.Earlymovementsonandnearthesteppe:
Nooveralldirec?onality Domes?catefron?ersspreadfromWsteppe,CentralAsia,NWChinaBeelineleapstodistantairac?vesites Informedbyinforma?onaboutgeographicallydistantplacesofinterest, andtravelroutesMovementintoaccre?onzones,languagebuildupsthere
2.EarliestUralic:Samoyediceastwardmovementisconsistentwithgeneralpre-Bronze-Agemovements:bidirec?onal,soeastwardispossible.3.Proto-Uralic:
Pre-Proto-Uralicoriginatedsomewhereinorneartheforest-steppeecotone (likelyincludingtheUralmineraldepositsandmetallodes)Pre-Proto-UralicenterstheFurRoadeconomy,becomesthetradelanguage --atsomepointin?meandspaceProto-Uralichasalinearrangeandanexpandingbidirec?onalfron?er AncestralSamoyedicattheeasternfron?er
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TheFurRoadaskey,cont.
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WideE-Wdistribu?onfromN.Kazakhstantowesternforest-steppe Notpoint-likeinspace,perhapsneverpoint-like ContactwithIndo-Iranian:northernKazakhstantoNERussia, Indo-Iraniandialectdiversity,oversomestretchof?me Sothiscontactepisodewasnotpoint-likein?meorspace
5.UralicbranchspreadsTradingposts,tradecolonies(orsimilar;notop?malterminology) broughtpris?ne,conserva?veearlyUralicfartotheeastandwestLocalspreadsfromtradingpoststoindigenouspopula?ons
Likelymechanism:intermarriage;bothindigenousandtraderspousesfrompowerfulfamilies.Likelylanguageoutcome:bilingualism,goodcommandofbothlanguages.Noappreciabledecomplexifica?onofUralic.
6.Expectedgene?cprofileUralicsignaturestrongestwherePre-Proto-UralicenteredtheFurRoadStrong(butnotunmixed)allalongtheFurRoad(maybenowpushednorth)Progressivelyweakertothenorth,andlocallymoremixed.
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Mostlyinvisible.Tradingpostsandcanoesmaybevisible.RawmaterialsmoveNtoS(andStoN?);value-addedtradeitemsE-WTechnologicalinnova?onsspreadrapidlyE-WalongFurRoad;thenN
8.Falsifyingandsuppor?ngthispictureLinguis?cs: Decomplexifica?on(ifany)tothenorthandalongsmallerrivers –butreallynoreasontoassumerapidshikanddecomplexifica?on Localcontactinfluenceespeciallytonorth Conserva?veProto-UralicprofilefartoEandW(andingeneral)Archaeology: Hypothesesaboutdirec?onalityoftechnologicalinnova?ons,raw
materialflow,tradeitemflow,culturalcontacts Evidenceofwealth(importantdriveroftradeinluxuries,e.g.furs)Gene?cs:DetectableUralicsignaturewithalongE-Wtrajectory,shorterand
steeperS>Ntrajectory,andmaybeamoreconcentratedcenter (Lactosetolerancepartoftheearlysignal??)
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userSticky NotePavel Flegontov archeogenetikai előadása erről szólt! Azzal zárta, hogy szerinte a sztyeppe első hulláma uráli (nyugat szibériai)-európai admixet mutat, és csak a későbbi hullámokban terjed a török komponens.
Thanks!NSF9222294KoneFounda?onRussianAcademicExcellenceProject5-100johanna@berkeley.edu
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