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Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis of Semitic Languages Identifies an Early Bronze Age Origin of Semitic in the Near East
Andrew Kitchen, Christopher Ehret, Shiferaw Assefa, Connie J. Mulligan · 2009
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- Type
- journal article and linguistic model
- Publication
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 276, 2703–2710
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- claim Semitic-language dispersal between Arabia, the Levant and the Horn is a debated linguistic and historical problem and cannot be reduced to one archaeologically demonstrated migr…Evidence confidence: highinforms · proposes interpretation · Phylogenetic methods and dispersal model
Provides one computational model.