日韓土耳其語源自中國東北

A study combining linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence has traced the origins of the family of languages including modern Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Mongolian and the people who speak them to millet farmers who inhabited a region in northeastern China about 9,000 years ago.

一項綜合了語言學、基因學和考古學證據(jù)的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，現(xiàn)代日語、韓語、土耳其語和蒙古語等同一語系的語言以及說這些語言的人，都起源于大約 9000 年前在中國東北地區(qū)種植粟的古代農民。

The findings detailed on Wednesday document a shared genetic ancestry for the hundreds of millions of people who speak what the researchers call Transeurasian languages across an area stretching more than 8,000 km.

該研究結果詳細記錄了在綿延8000多公里的區(qū)域內數(shù)億人共同的基因傳承，他們使用的語言被研究人員稱為"泛歐亞語系"。該研究結果于11月10日發(fā)表。

This language family's beginnings were traced to Neolithic millet farmers in the Liao River valley, an area encompassing parts of the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the region of Inner Mongolia.

泛歐亞語系的源頭可以追溯到新石器時代位于今中國遼寧、吉林和內蒙古三地的遼河流域種植谷子的農民。

As these farmers moved across northeastern Asia, the descendant languages spread north and west into Siberia and the steppes and east into the Korean peninsula and over the sea to the Japanese archipelago over thousands of years.

隨著這些農民遷移到東北亞，其后代語言在數(shù)千年的時間里，就隨之向北和西傳播到了西伯利亞和大草原，也向東傳播到朝鮮半島并跨過海洋到達日本群島。