-
1
Genetic structure correlates with ethnolinguistic diversity in eastern and southern Africa
منشور في 2022"…The work presented here improves the understanding of the spectrum of genetic variation in African populations and highlights the enormous and complex genetic and ethnolinguistic diversity across Africa.…"
Journal article -
2
Chinese language provision for ethnolinguistic minorities in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools: policy, practice, and phenomenology
منشور في 2021"…</p> <p>Taken together, although CAL provision for ethnolinguistic minority students has received ample policy attention and been accordingly enhanced from 2014 onwards (e.g., increased commitments of recurrent funds, and CAL measures targeting the kindergarten sector), it has all along been subject to the ecological influences of a laissez-faire policy ecology favouring school-based management and loose coupling (see Weick, 1976), as well as the broader examination-driven culture. …"
أطروحة -
3
Review of "A grammar of Jero"
منشور في 2024"…The assumption of a particularly close relationship between Jero and Wambule was noted in Hansson (1991) and appears to be so close that Opgenort appeals some to ethnolinguistics in order to assert that Jero and Wambule are different languages.…"
احصل على النص الكامل
Journal Article -
4
Evaluation of common type 2 diabetes risk variants in a South Asian population of Sri Lankan descent
منشور في 2014"…Overall, these association findings were robust to analyses that accounted for membership of ethnolinguistic subgroups. Overall, the odds ratios for 31 of the 36 SNPs were directionally-consistent with those observed in Europeans (p = 3.2×10(-6)). …"
Journal article -
5
The causal history of Africa: A response to Hopkins.
منشور في 2010"…Hopkins writes that economists have spent the last decade writing a “new” economic history of Africa that has escaped the notice of historians. He labels the “ethnolinguistic fractionalization” and “reversal of fortune” theses as this literature's key insights. …"
Journal article -
6
Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities
منشور في 2024"…Previous research supporting differences across cultures has often relied on introspection or qualitative ethnolinguistic methods. Departing from this, we collected systematic sensory, motor, and emotion ratings for different landscape terms from 289 native speakers of German, English and French. …"
Journal article -
7
War and identity: the case of the Donbas in Ukraine
منشور في 2018"…Language categories matter for current self-identification, but they are not cast in narrow ethnolinguistic terms, and feeling “more Ukrainian” and Ukrainian citizenship include mono- and bilingual conceptions of native language (i.e. …"
Journal article -
8
Comments on the 'Hani' dialects of Loloish
منشور في 2024"…In that work, Matisoff had, in passing, questioned the linguistic relevance of some of the Chinese ethnolinguistic groupings; the name 'Hani', in par¬ticular, had been applied to dialects that seemed, at least superficially, quite divergent. …"
احصل على النص الكامل
Journal Article -
9
Fine-scale genetic structure and natural selection signatures of southwestern Hans inferred from patterns of genome-wide allele, haplotype, and haplogroup lineages
منشور في 2021"…Here, we collected and generated genome-wide data of 50 Han Chinese individuals from four populations in Guizhou Province, one of the most ethnolinguistically diverse regions, and merged it with over 3,000 publicly available modern and ancient Eurasians to describe the genetic origin and population admixture history of Guizhou Hans and their neighbors. …"
احصل على النص الكامل
Journal Article -
10
Unveiling the 'other': comparing discourses of Kristang supernatural folktales
منشور في 2023"…The eponymous act of unveiling refers to the local belief that those “born in the veil” are able to see spirits, while the ‘Other’ indexes both (i) the Kristang ethnolinguistic minority, and (ii) folkloric supernatural entities. …"
احصل على النص الكامل
Final Year Project (FYP) -
11
"Listen carefully to the voices of the birds": a comparative review of birds as signs
منشور في 2018"…In this review of published literature from the Human Relations Area Files and elsewhere on birds as signs, we extracted details about 498 kinds of birds in 123 ethnolinguistic groups and found that, worldwide, owls, crows, cuckoos, woodpeckers, herons, eagles, nightjars, and chickens were the most reported as sign-bearers. …"
Journal article -
12
Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture
منشور في 2023"…Despite this, genome-wide data have only been obtained from a small proportion of present-day ethnolinguistic groups. By analyzing new autosomal genetic variation data of 1333 individuals from over 150 ethnic groups from Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sudan, we demonstrate a previously underappreciated fine-scale level of genetic structure within these countries, for example, correlating with historical polities in western Cameroon. …"
Journal article -
13
Transportal literatures: Empire, partition, and exile in colonial and postcolonial travel writing on Cyprus
منشور في 2018"…<p>The purpose of this thesis is to interrogate the stylist forms and literary devices employed in the travel writing of Cyprus with particular attention to how they relate to the political history of the island from the time of British imperial rule, to the rise of nationalist movements, and the ethnolinguistic partition of 1974. Doing so, this thesis uses the concept of transportal literatures to interrogate how these works manoeuvre through these political paradigms in the writings of Cyprus. …"
أطروحة -
14
Implosive and preglottalized stops in Kiranti
منشور في 2024"…The Kiranti languages are members of the Tibeto-Burman (or Sino-Tibetan) language family. The ethnolinguistic term `Kiranti' applies to the Tibeto-Burman peoples native to the hill tracts of eastern Nepal, specifically the Limbu and Rai groups. …"
احصل على النص الكامل
Journal Article -
15
Phylogeography Study Of The Indigenous People Of Sabah: Kadazan, Dusun, Rungus And Bajau
منشور في 2020"…In Southeast Asia (SEA), it has been extensively used to study the Austronesian diaspora, possibly the most widespread movement of a single ethnolinguistic group. Through archaeological and linguistic evidence, it has been shown that rice farmers who were proto-Austronesian speakers migrated from South China into Taiwan c. 5,500 years ago. …"
احصل على النص الكامل
أطروحة -
16
The punctuated equilibrium model of public policy: explaining inertia in Singapore’s Mother Tongue policy
منشور في 2022"…Instead, partisan interests in maintaining this brand of multiracialism serves to entrench existing ethnolinguistic policy positions, contributing to inertia in language policy reform.…"
احصل على النص الكامل
Journal Article -
17
Shared language, diverging genetic histories: high-resolution analysis of Y-chromosome variability in Calabrian and Sicilian Arbereshe
منشور في 2015"…The Albanian-speaking minorities of Sicily and Southern Italy (Arbereshe) constitute an important portion of the ethnolinguistic variability of Italy. Their linguistic isolation from neighboring Italian populations and their documented migration history, make such minorities particularly effective for investigating the interplay between cultural, geographic and historical factors. …"
Journal article -
18
Malaria ecology along the Thailand-Myanmar border
منشور في 2015"…The region is also a hub for ethnic diversity, being home to over ten different ethnolinguistic groups, several of which have been engaged in conflict with the Myanmar government now for over half a century. …"
Journal article -
19
Indian languages in Singapore
منشور في 2024"…While the 31 demographic, political, socio-cultural, and sociolinguistic factors have been proposed to predict the likelihood of survival for assessed languages, here they serve as a framework to assess both community attitude and ethnolinguistic vitality among the Indian speech communities in Singapore. …"
احصل على النص الكامل
فصل الكتاب -
20
Strengthening District Administration in Plural Communal Context: An Analysis on the Potential Impact of Establishing a Kalmunai Administrative District in Sri Lanka
منشور في 2018"…The findings reveal that the conceptualization and advocacy of the Kalmunai administrative district are outcomes of several interconnected factors that undermined the rights and interests of ethnolinguistic minorities in decentralized district administration. …"
احصل على النص الكامل
مقال