汉语形式和功能问题.doc

International Conference on “Chinese Form and Function” in Honor of Prof. Xu Liejiong for his 70th Birthday Zhengzhou (Henan), 21-23 April 2006 Some Remarks on Languages and Genes in China Alain Peyraube CNRS EHESS (Paris, France) Shang China was inhabited by Chinese populations speaking Sinitic languages. It was also inhabited by non Chinese populations. We do not know however who precisely these non Chinese populations were, while the evidence for the origins of the Chinese language is still also scanty and controversial. Can the history of genes help us in understanding better what the Ch