Re: [tied] Pictish --------- (ORIGIN OF PICTS)

From: Milos Bogdanovic
Message: 24778
Date: 2003-07-24

> I believe also that Pictish may have been a seperate Celtic branch
> midway between Brittonic and Gaulish, but closer to Gaulish. It would
> then make sense that Bede mentioned Pictish as one of the 5 languages of
> Britian, seperate from Goidelic or Brittonic. ...

Picts are natives, non-Indoeuropeans. Genetic reveals that there are only
two native populations on their area (antigens HLA-B12 and HLA-B7).
These are Atlantic Mediterraneans (Megalitic culture of western Europe),
and Finno-Ugric population. The first are very tall, the second are very
small,
etc. Picts are either of the first or of the second origin. ...

Milos Bogdanovic