Europeans descend from Basques... Yes, that must be it... not.
Richard:
>But that is simply based on the assumptions that Uralic and IE are
>not native to Europe!
I'm confused by this statement.
Ultimately Uralic and IE languages _aren't_ native to Europe. At
the very least, certainly not native of Western Europe where the Vasconic
speaking population have been recorded for thousands of years (cf.
Aquitanian).
The whole linguistic pattern of Europe strongly suggests that the Vasconic
language family, once more widespread, was marginalized to the mountains as
the Indo-European languages had come from the east overwhelming Western
Europe.
As for the genes debate, I'm just so tired of people intertwining genetics
with linguistics as if the two must somehow completely correlate. You people
still don't get it, do you? I'm just not getting through to you people, am
I?
- gLeN
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