Ancient DNA Solves Mystery of Hungarian, Finnish Language Family’s Origins

Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west Ancient DNA is reshaping the story of Europe’s Uralic languages: instead of the Urals, their trail leads ~4,500 years back to Yakutia in northeastern Siberia. A Nature study combining hundreds of ancient genomes tracks an east-to-west genetic signal [...]

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