Bodish

I consider the Bodish linkage to have formed from diverse Eastern Sino-Tibetan branches that originated from broad areas of China. Lexical similarities to Bodish can be seen in Lolo-Burmese, Tujia, Sinitic, Donor-Hmong-Mien, etc., none of which have been influenced by Tibetan.

Archaeological evidence shows that the Tibetan Plateau was settled during the late Neolithic by agriculturalists coming from the east (cf. the introduction of Hyslop 2011, A Grammar of Kurtöp). These Neolithic farmers carrying Y-DNA haplogroup O3 mixed with earlier residents of the region, carrying Y-DNA haplogroup D, who had settled there during the Paleolithic.

Bodish diversity was then later leveled by Tibetic expansions that occurred during the last 1,500 years.