DNA carries information about population history and ancestry, but it carries no information about the specific cultural productions — language, ceremony, story — that the people who carried those genes created and transmitted.

Two genetically related populations can speak completely different languages; two genetically unrelated populations can speak languages that have come to resemble each other through borrowing and contact.

The language spoken at Mal’ta 24,000 years ago has no known linguistic descendants.

There is no language family anywhere in the world that can be traced back, through the methods of historical linguistics, to this specific time and place.

The reconstruction of ancient languages through comparative linguistics requires the existence of documented descendant languages from which shared ancestral features can be identified — and the language of Mal’ta left no such descendants, or if it did, the linguistic evolution of 24,000 years has made those descendants unrecognizable.