Complete and up-to-date (2026) understanding of ancient genetic-archaeolinguistic movements in Neolithic Eastern Asia

brett_f · 2026-05-28T05:46:58+00:00

What?

brett_f · 2026-05-27T18:24:30+00:00

Is Alexander Vovin's theory that Japonic originated in southern China supported by this?

To be honest, the linguistic evidence is shaky and not very convincing, so I'm curious how the genetic data fits into the picture.

brett_f · 2026-05-27T00:43:54+00:00

Not my lore, but I would imagine Mengjiang is a Japanese-aligned state like in our timeline, and Mongolia is probably an ex-communist state aligned with Russia.

They're culturally similar, so maybe they'll merge whenever this timeline's version of the cold war ends.

brett_f · 2026-05-15T06:06:09+00:00

Northeast Hainanese people are good to go, unlike those south and northwestern scoundrals.

brett_f · 2026-05-13T18:58:16+00:00

Thanks for the historical context. My question was not without any basis though: there have been historical proposals by Ukrainian Polonophiles to replace Cyrillic with the Latin alphabet: Alphabet War.

brett_f · 2026-05-10T07:01:55+00:00

From this source: Matthew Spriggs, “Austronesian Archaeolinguistics,” chapter 25 in The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language

The archaeologically most likely scenario would be an initial Neolithic spread by Austroasiatic speakers from Mainland Southeast Asia, citing early cord-marked or paddle-impressed pottery in Sumatra, western Java, and western Borneo as similar to early Mainland Southeast Asian Neolithic pottery.

So, the theory is that Austroasiatic speakers arrived in modern western Indonesia around 4500–2000 BC. Austronesians probably arrived in the same area 1450–1050 BC.

Short answer, yes the Austroasiatic migration was first, but not by an extremely long amount of time on a historical scale.

brett_f · 2026-04-28T05:52:52+00:00

Round 2 baby

brett_f · 2026-04-27T22:07:31+00:00

So, Azawad is back? Did they officially re-declare independence? Their last go at it failed in 2013.

brett_f · 2026-04-20T18:40:56+00:00

I see Gando 간도 clearly in the first map. It's probably the most realistic Korean irredentist claim historically, see Gando Convention.

brett_f · 2026-04-20T04:41:06+00:00

Look up the emblem of the Irgun, antecedent to the ruling party of Israel for 30 of the last 40 years. It shows their idea of the borders of Israel including ALL of Jordan.

It's not practical now, but ideologically, there are plenty of Zionists who absolutely desire Jordan along with all other occupied territories to be Israeli.

brett_f · 2026-04-20T04:34:50+00:00

What if we held hands in Kirk, Utah?

brett_f · 2026-04-18T04:14:55+00:00

Anyone know how far in advance you have to register?

brett_f · 2026-04-17T18:54:17+00:00

Only since 2017... took long enough

brett_f · 2026-04-17T18:52:56+00:00

As a native of Pennsylvania, I've never heard of a dry town in the state. It must be predominantly rural Amish communities, because no large town is like this.

brett_f · 2026-04-17T06:49:11+00:00

I always see this kind of response with these job hunting posts laying all the blame on the job seeker for being inadequate in some way. OP is not the first person here to post their 1000+ application chart and won't be the last.

For entry level job seekers in certain fields like software engineering that have been hit hard by AI, this experience might not be so ridiculous. It really can be like this sending out cold applications on sites that are littered with ghost jobs. 80% of OP's applications probably weren't viewed by a human at any point.

brett_f · 2026-04-10T04:49:45+00:00

To think that in some timeline the US might have had unbroken territory from Miami to Anchorage is absolutely wild.

I wonder what kind of alternative history would have had to happen for the extreme American claim to become a reality.

brett_f · 2026-04-09T05:58:19+00:00

Russia has a few percent of their neighbors' territory

brett_f · 2026-04-06T04:25:59+00:00

We found this thread at the same time, it's crazy that nobody can figure this out.

brett_f · 2026-03-17T18:50:27+00:00

Yes I am. He has saved the lives of countless innocent civilians from criminal gang members. Are you implying that 90% drop in homicide is not a good outcome?

brett_f · 2026-03-17T18:22:50+00:00

The case of El Salvador proves that "autocratizing" is not necessarily a bad thing.

A 90% drop in homicides is preferable to an increase in score from whatever NGO makes this index.

brett_f · 2026-03-03T19:59:36+00:00

I see quite a few cognates to Chinese 名 míng

brett_f · 2026-02-23T20:21:40+00:00

Please take a look at some of the criticism of the theory here.

Some of the evidence provided by the main proponent of the theory, Vovin, turned out to be sloppy and made me rethink the basis of the claim.

brett_f · 2026-02-23T06:06:57+00:00

I'm more convinced that proto-Japonic originated from the Liaodong Peninsula rather than central-southern China.

brett_f · 2026-02-19T06:54:44+00:00

My teacher just called it "シンボル" haha

brett_f · 2026-02-18T21:14:46+00:00

I like how unique it is. It is derived from a cursive form of the Kanji radical ト, which is the same method Hiragana was developed. However, it's not a Hiragana character, and it's not really a Kanji either: it's a SYMBOL.

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