Short communication, Note
Culture and Biology: Surnames in Evaluating Genetic Relationships Among the Ethnic Minorities of Southern Italy and Sicily
A. Vienna
G. Biondi
Abstract
Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the
Albanian-Italian, Croat-Italian, and Greek-Italian villages. The coefficients of relationships
by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities
of Southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided in two main clusters: the
first cluster comprises the Albanian, Croat, and Greek communities of the Adriatic
area; and the second cluster comprises the Albanian communities of the Ionian, Thirrenian
and Sicilian area. The Greeks of Reggio Calabria Province are completely separated
from the other communities.
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Hrčak ID:
28327
URI
Publication date:
18.6.2001.
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