Genetic evidence supports linguistic affinity of Mlabri - a hunter-gatherer group in Thailand

• Main Authors: Shuhua Xu, Daoroong Kangwanpong, Mark Seielstad, Metawee Srikummool, Jatupol Kampuansai, Li Jin
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=77952274210&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/50584
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Background: The Mlabri are a group of nomadic hunter-gatherers inhabiting the rural highlands of Thailand. Little is known about the origins of the Mlabri and linguistic evidence suggests that the present-day Mlabri language most likely arose from Tin, a Khmuic language in the Austro-Asiatic languag...