Re: IE & Uralic

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:26 AM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: IE & Uralic

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...> wrote:
>> > > . . .
> > > Romance and Germanic languages of Western Europe
> > > (other than English) share many features due to
> > > interaction, both with one another and with
> > > Classical Latin and Greek. Similarly there are also features
> > > common to languages situated in Europe that are not
> > > found in Indo-European languages spoken in India and
> > > Iran, but are found in the Uralic languages.

This is because of the great migrations across Europe.
> > > . . .
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Arnaud

Genetics suggests that 75% of people never moved from the place they arrived when Homo Sapiens settled in Europe 37 000 years ago.

These "great" migrations are fantasy.

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