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SUBMITTER: Whitehouse P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC397480 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Whitehouse Paul P Usher Timothy T Ruhlen Merritt M Wang William S-Y WS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040331 15
The Kusunda people of central Nepal have long been regarded as a relic tribe of South Asia. They are, or were until recently, seminomadic hunter-gatherers, living in jungles and forests, with a language that shows no similarities to surrounding languages. They are often described as shorter and darker than neighboring tribes. Our research indicates that the Kusunda language is a member of the Indo-Pacific family. This is a surprising finding inasmuch as the Indo-Pacific family is located on New ...[more]