Roy
07-13-2022, 11:18 AM
It's a language spoken by Karitiana people used deep in the Amazonian forest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfqXGoFtXeQ
I think their language is very sweet & gentle, reminds me some languages used by Indians from North America, mainly ... Canada. It has nasal vowels, but there's no Brazilian Portuguese accent intrusion I think, likely due to extreme isolation.
These people are fascinating from a genetic point of view:
A 2015 genetic study reached a surprising conclusion about the origins of the Karitiana people. While the Karitiana people are closely related to other Native Americans, they share closer relations to Southeast Asians & Polynesians compared with other Native Americans which are closest to Siberians and Northeast Asians.[7][8]
A study by Iosif Lazaridis (2014) found Karitiana to carry Mal'ta MA1 (41%) admixture while the other geneflow in Karitiana appears to have an Eastern Eurasian origin.[9] A study by Kanazawa-Kiriyama et al. (2017) detected gene flow from Karitiana to Mal'ta MA1 (21%) which is in the reverse direction of what was reported in previous studies such as Raghavan et al. 2014 who used a much larger sequence data. The authors speculate that the inverse flow could be due to Ancient Beringian migration in a westward migration into Eurasia.[10]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfqXGoFtXeQ
I think their language is very sweet & gentle, reminds me some languages used by Indians from North America, mainly ... Canada. It has nasal vowels, but there's no Brazilian Portuguese accent intrusion I think, likely due to extreme isolation.
These people are fascinating from a genetic point of view:
A 2015 genetic study reached a surprising conclusion about the origins of the Karitiana people. While the Karitiana people are closely related to other Native Americans, they share closer relations to Southeast Asians & Polynesians compared with other Native Americans which are closest to Siberians and Northeast Asians.[7][8]
A study by Iosif Lazaridis (2014) found Karitiana to carry Mal'ta MA1 (41%) admixture while the other geneflow in Karitiana appears to have an Eastern Eurasian origin.[9] A study by Kanazawa-Kiriyama et al. (2017) detected gene flow from Karitiana to Mal'ta MA1 (21%) which is in the reverse direction of what was reported in previous studies such as Raghavan et al. 2014 who used a much larger sequence data. The authors speculate that the inverse flow could be due to Ancient Beringian migration in a westward migration into Eurasia.[10]