Fw: Re: [tied] Lusitanians,made a mistake

> 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.

They may think that, but there is no actual evidence to support such
an idea.

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

Gaul.

There is no real evidence for this - most merely cite the Coligny
Calendar as proof of this, yet the presence of -qu-'s in the
calendar do not necessarily mean that the local dialect was Q-Celtic
(the -qu's may simply be an orthographical variation of -cu-, and
need not have come from PIE -kW-)
- in fact, the presence of -p-'s not only in the calendar, but also
in local placenames in the area where the calendar was found, indeed
confirm that P-Celtic was spoken by the framers of the calendar.

- Chris Gwinn