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Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

Our paper is out! We linked genetic and linguistic data to study how contact changes language and found consistent patterns of borrowing across contact situations
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Capturing language change through the genes - NCCR Evolving Language When populations meet, they typically exchange genes. Their languages meet too, and such encounters can change languages. But how much do languages actually change through contact, and do these change...

📰When populations meet, they exchange genes, but also language features. According to a new study by NCCR researchers, contact between human populations increases the resemblance between their languages to similar extents all over the world, but differently.

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Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence

*New linguistic data release* curated by @annagraff.bsky.social. We are already cooking interesting multidisciplinary analysis with this rich and solid resource... and you should try it, too! check the paper and the documentation www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nccrlanguage.bsky.social