Re: Europeans descend from Basques...

--- In cybalist@..., erobert52@... wrote:

>
> Elite linguistic dominance does not mean elite genetic dominance,
> as we can see from Turkey for example, where only a small number of
> invaders from Central Asia imposed their language on a previously
> Indo-European speaking populace which is still genetically very
> much like the neighbouring Greeks. One cannot argue that such
> events have no role in shaping the big picture just because they
> only occur some of the time. Assuming that such events didn't
> occur as much in prehistory would also be quite a big assumption.
>
>
> Ed.
>

Out of curiosity: Has anything of the previous languages (except for
Byzantine Greek, of course) survived in present-day Anatolian Turkish
(possibly in dialects)? Has anyone investigated that? Is it worth
pursuing?

Torsten