Re: [tied] Re: Europeans descend from Basques

Richard:

>It is not impossible that Vasconic entered from the Near
>East after the LGM; the earliest Europeans are best
>represented in Scandinavia, not the Basque country!

Interesting. That would play right into my hands. That's
exactly when I think the Basque language moved into Europe.
(I also think that Basque has a remote relationship to
Nakh-Daghestinian and Hurro-Urartian.)

>Some would add Pictish (though others will say that Pictish
>is several languages, and some that it is Indo-European),
>and some will reckon that Etruscan is indigenous.

Etruscan cannot possibly be indigenous when we have the
existence of the related Lemnian language to contend with.
Etruscan and Rhaetic would appear to derive ultimately
from the Eastern Mediterranean area. I don't see a more
plausible theory to account for these languages.


- gLeN


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