Re: Mitanni and Matsya

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56877
Date: 2008-04-06

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> By the way, French colonialism thought it could turn anybody French
> even a Senegalese, so that many people in colonies were taught
> "Nos ancĂȘtres les Gaulois"...
> Rather odd, when you are Togolese or Vietnamese.
> Arnaud
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Does that mean that you believe those peoples are an exception to the
rule that everything you haven't heard of before is Celtic?
Torsten
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I suppose a substrate can be Celtic.
French has a clear Celtic substrate, I suppose ?

Arnaud

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