{"id":47038,"date":"2011-10-08T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2011-10-08T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T22:43:31","slug":"the-genetics-of-the-kusunda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/08\/the-genetics-of-the-kusunda\/","title":{"rendered":"The genetics of the Kusunda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kusunda\">Kusunda<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Kusunda or Ban Raja (&#8220;people of the forest&#8221;), known to themselves as the Mihaq or Myahq (&lt; *Myahak), are a tribe of former hunter-gatherers of the forests of western Nepal, who are now intermarried with neighboring peoples and settled in villages.<\/p>\n<p>The Kusunda are followers of animism, though Hindu overtones may be seen in their religious rituals. According to the 2001 Nepal census, there are a total of 164 ethnic Kusunda of whom 160 were Hindus and 4 were Buddhists. The Nepali word Kusunda originally meant &#8220;savage&#8221;, as the neighboring Chepang and other groups traditionally thought of them as savages, but the Kusunda do not mind the term when speaking Nepali.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Their language, which is almost extinct, is an isolate:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Watters (2005) published a mid-sized grammatical description of the language, plus vocabulary, which shows that Kusunda is indeed a language isolate, not just genealogically but also lexically, grammatically, and phonologically distinct from its neighbors. It appears that Kusunda is a remnant of the languages spoken in northern India prior to the influx of Tibeto-Burman- and Indo-Iranian-speaking peoples.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/334\/6052\/94\">An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia<\/a> has a genetic analysis of the Kusunda buried deep within it.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-5289\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kusunda.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5290\" title=\"kusunda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kusunda.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kusunda2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5291\" title=\"kusunda2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kusunda2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the Munda the Kusunda seem to be an undiluted ANI-ASI population which admixed with East Asians. Being in Nepal I am not surprised that the Kusunda are far more East Asian than the Munda. No wonder people assumed their language was Tibeto-Burman in origin. <strong>But observe that like the Munda when ADMIXTURE fractionates South Asian ancestry into Northwest-Southeast components <em>they entirely lack the Northwest element<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kusunda: The Kusunda or Ban Raja (&#8220;people of the forest&#8221;), known to themselves as the Mihaq or Myahq (&#060; *Myahak), are a tribe of former hunter-gatherers of the forests of western Nepal, who are now intermarried with neighboring peoples and settled in villages. The Kusunda are followers of animism, though Hindu overtones may be seen [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1737],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-kusunda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47163,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47038\/revisions\/47163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}