Origins of language category postulated

Researchers at Fudan University have provided linguistic evidence of Sino-Tibetan origins in northern China in the Late Neolithic age, serving as a critical basis for the study in the origin and development of Chinese civilization and the migration history in East Asia.

The research paper - Phylogenetic Evidence for Sino-Tibetan Origin in Northern China in the Late Neolithic Age - was published in the multidisciplinary science journal Nature on Thursday.

Zhang Menghan and Yan Shi, researchers at the university, are the lead co-authors of the paper, while Jin Li, professor of human genetics and anthropology at the school of life sciences, is a corresponding author.