Re: [tied] Re: Mitochondrial DNA Portrait of Latvians: Towards the
From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 44862 Date: 2006-06-02
On 2006-06-02 04:18, Daniel J. Milton wrote:
> Looks like "mother tongue" may not be as simple a descriptor as
> we've always carelessly assumed.
It's a culture-dependent thing. In Polish we describe one's native
language as "je,zyk ojczysty" (father tongue), which might make a Pole
expect a fit between linguistic and Y-chromosomal data :)