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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by girvo on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:10PM (#34990658)
> and the spread of this language family from a small progenitor language to the dominant language on the continent

I was with you up until this point. Do you have a source for this?

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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by runsWphotons on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:43AM (#34993486)
Well it is dominant in that >300/~400 languages are bow in this family. This paper argues for a mid-holocene origin from a proto language around the time we are discussing, and also mentions some other theories w sources (https://langev.com/pdf/442ac40068c1d8a67a561d0d7f0fcd95c429c...)
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