2019年以降の系統学的研究によって、シナ・チベット語族が農業伝播と共に拡張したという仮説の確度が高まった。Sagart et al. (2019) とZhang et al. (2019)はそれぞれ、この語族が7200年余り前の中国北部 (North China) に居住していた雑穀 (millet) 農耕民族に由来すると結論づけている[4][5][6][7]。
概要
シナ・チベット語族は、通常、チベット・ビルマ語派とシナ語派に二分され、これらは姉妹群であると考えられている[8][9]。一方、シナ語派を除くチベット・ビルマ語派を単系統群と認めない説もある[10]。後者の場合、「チベット・ビルマ祖語」は「シナ・チベット祖語」と指示対象が同一となる。実際、ベイズ法を用いてシナ・チベット語族の系統樹を推定した研究のうち、Sagart et al. (2019) は後者を支持しているが、Zhang et al.(2019) は前者を支持している。
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