Transcript Phylogeography of South Eurasian languages Guillaume JACQUES

The Geography of South
Eurasian languages
Guillaume JACQUES
Université Paris V - CRLAO
The six major language families of
South Eurasia
The six major language families of
South Eurasia
Sino-Tibetan / Tibeto-Burman
Austronesian
Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien)
Kra-dai (Tai-kadai)
Austroasiatic
Dravidian
Language Isolates
Language Isolates
Burushaski
Language Isolates
Burushaski
Kusunda
Language Isolates
Burushaski
Kusunda
Nahali
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan / Indochinese
Chinese
Thai
Tibetan
Miao-Yao
Lolo-Burmese
Tibeto-Burman
Qiangic
Sino-Tibetan / Indochinese
Chinese
Tibeto-Burman
Tibetan
Lolo-Burmese
Qiangic
Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman)
Qiangic
Chinese Tibetan LoloBurmese
Tibeto-Burman (Klaproth 1823)
Nearly 30 primary branches
Other
primary
branches
The Primary Branches of SinoTibetan
1100 CE
Tangut
Tibetan
Chinese
Burmese
Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (1)
Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (2)
Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)
Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)
Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)
Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)
Austronesian
Subgrouping
PAN
Paiwan
Northern
East Coast Linkage
Rukai
Amis
Bunun
Urheimat in Taiwan circa
3500 BCE
Kavaln
PMP
Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien)
Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien)
• Split 500 BCE
• Most of the reconstructible vocabulary of
Chinese origin.
Kra-dai (Tai-kadai)
Kra-dai (Ostapirat 2005)
Split 2000 BCE
Kra-dai
Kra
Hlai
Kam-dai
Kam-sui
Dai-Be
Kam
Be
Then
Tai
Mak
Southwestern
Sui
Central
Northern
Urheimat of Kra-dai in Guangxi
Austroasiatic
Austroasiatic
Khmer
Mon
Austroasiatic (Diffloth 2005)
Split 5000 BCE
AA
Munda
Khasi-Khmuic
Mon-Khmer
South
Khasi
Khmer-Viet
North
Palaung-Khmu
Nicobar-Mon
Dravidian
Brahui
Macrophyla
• Sino-Austronesian (Sagart)
– ST, Austronesian
• Kra-Dai as a Subgroup of AN within East
Coastal Linkage (Sagart)
Macrophyla
• Indochinese (Leyden 1806)
– ST, (MT), KD, (Austroasiatic)
• Turanian (Müller)
– ST, KD, AA, AN, Dravidian
• Austric (Schmidt 1906)
– Austroasiatic, Austronesian
• Austro-Thai (Schlegel 1901, Wulff 1942,
Benedict)
– Kra-Dai, Austronesian
• Miao-Yao / Austroasiatic (Davies 1909)
Macrophyla
• Sino-Caucasian (Starostin)
– ST, Ienissean, West Caucasian
• Austric (Pejros)
– Kra-Dai, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, MY
Macrophyla
• East-Asian (Zhengzhang, Starosta)
– ST, MY, Austronesian, KD, Austroasiatic
Macrophyla
• Elamo-dravidian (McAlpin) : Dravidian
Indus Civilisation.