Re: [tied] Lusitanians

Hi Alex, my understanding was that,
1. The the language of the Lusitanians was closely related to the
language of the Aquitanians, and that the languages of these two peoples
were unrelated to the languages of the Iberians.

2. The languages of the Tartessians and Turdetani was different than the
languages of the other Iberians.

3. That the languages of the ancient Iberians and modern Basques, though
unrelated to one another, are seen by some as having close affinities
with the Kartvellian Caucasian languages (hence the possibility that
maybe there is some truth in the Classical Authors' referance to the
Caucasus and European Iberians being related, or one a branch of the
other).

4. The Aquitanians were ancestors of the present day Basques, being
referred to as Vascones and occupying the same area that the Basques do
today. Also, some think, as there was an Aquitanian tribe called the
Pictones (and the Picts were often referred to as Pictones) and Medieval
British Histories (Geofrey of Monmouth, Gerald of Wales for example)
refer to a people called the Basclenes coming in ships and settling in
Ireland, that the Picts are partly related or a branch of the
Aquitanians.

4. And according to Peter Ellis, P-Celtic speakers began to settle in
Spain around the mid-1st millenium B.C.

5. And that Q-Celtic is known to have been spoken in parts of Gaul.

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