Originally Posted by
michal3141
According to Global25 distances genetically Poles are closest to Ukrainians, then Southern Russians, Sorbs and Belarusians. Then come Slovaks but the difference is not big:
> getMonte('Global_25_PCA_pop_averages_scaled.txt', 'Polish.txt')
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Polish1 Ukrainian
0.000000 1.011484
HUN_Avar_Szolad Russian_Voronez
1.630492 1.717779
Russian_Orel Sorb_Niederlausitz
1.832130 1.881539
Cossack_Ukrainian Russian_Smolensk
1.998054 2.090743
Belarusian RUS_Sunghir_MA
2.138159 2.253362
Russian_Kursk Slovakian
2.260559 2.287775
Czech CZE_Early_Slav
2.486398 3.118426
Russian_Tver German_East
3.131693 3.185404
Of course Polish is considered a West Slavic language with Slovak and Czech. We are also using Latin script which is another similarity with Slovaks and Czechs.
I don't really know.
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