The Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic ancestry of Bengalis
When I first got my father’s 23andMe results the Y and mtDNA were an interesting contrast. He, and therefore myself, carried Y lineage R1a1a, the lord of the paternal lineages. That was not that great a surprise. In the 1000 Genomes results for the Bangladeshi sample 20% of the men were direct paternal descendants of […]
Does Sylheti = Bengali?
A cousin posted this on Facebook. The strange issue here is that the language here is very different from standard Bengali, and in fact, more diverged than most regional Bengali dialects. I have a very difficult time understanding it. It’s … Continue reading →