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ArticleRoyal Society open science2018

A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family.

Vishnupriya Kolipakam, Fiona M Jordan, Michael Dunn, Simon J Greenhill, Remco Bouckaert, Russell D Gray, Annemarie Verkerk

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Vishnupriya KolipakamWildlife Institute of India, Post Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India.
Fiona M JordanEvolutionary Processes in Language and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9953-8884
Michael DunnEvolutionary Processes in Language and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5349-5252
Simon J GreenhillDepartment of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7832-6156
Remco BouckaertDepartment of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6765-3813
Russell D GrayDepartment of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9858-0191
Annemarie VerkerkEvolutionary Processes in Language and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3351-8362

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Dravidian language family consists of about 80 varieties (Hammarström H. 2016

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Bayesian phylogenetic inferenceBEAST 2datingDravidianlanguage phylogeny

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PMID29657761
PMCPMC5882685

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