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After a divorce in 1971, she moved to Seattle to complete a doctorate at the University of Washington, writing a dissertation on the ethnolinguistic patterns of dialect differences and oral traditions.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2024

Moreover, the study demonstrates that modern DNA research targeting understudied regions of high ethnolinguistic diversity can complement ancient DNA studies in probing the deep genetic structure of the African continent.

From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023

Today the Maya are an ethnolinguistic group of at least 7 million Indigenous peoples in Central America.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 22, 2022

The rumors about Condé took hold around Faranah even though the president comes from the same Maninka ethnolinguistic group as the region’s inhabitants, which would typically assuage their skepticism.

From New York Times • May 26, 2016

“The effect of ethnolinguistic boundaries is much stronger for the folk tales than for genes.”

From Scientific American • Feb. 6, 2013