Migrations

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>

wrote:

> >> > > . . .
> > > > Romance and Germanic languages of Western Europe
> > > > (other than English) share many features due to
> > > > interaction, both with one another and with
> > > > Classical Latin and Greek. Similarly there are also features
> > > > common to languages situated in Europe that are not
> > > > found in Indo-European languages spoken in India and
> > > > Iran, but are found in the Uralic languages.
>
> This is because of the great migrations across Europe.
> > > > . . .
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> Arnaud
> Genetics suggests that 75% of people never moved from the place

they arrived when Homo Sapiens settled in Europe 37 000 years ago.

> These "great" migrations are fantasy.
> ================

The great migrations might have been small compared to what we are
experiencing today. That doesn't mean they weren't significant then.


Torsten