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To: buwaya
like the BAsques

An interesting bit of research found that the Basques are not genetically different from their neighbours, only linguistically. Of course, being a small population they must have intermingled with the communities around them. The basque language is also supposed to be related to the Chechen. The other non-IndoEuropean linguistic group in Europe is the Finnish-Ugaritic group to which Finnish and some Baltic languages belong.

Weren't the Celts also Indo-European? Not Aryan though.
32 posted on 11/06/2003 12:36:49 AM PST by Cronos (W2004)
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To: Cronos
The Basques are certainly genetically odd. Cavalli-Sforza "History and geography of human genes" has genetic maps of Europe, and the Basques form an isolate, and the regions around the Basque country a transition zone. The Basques have physical characteristics that distinguish them from the European norm, such as many times the rate of rare blood types.
44 posted on 11/07/2003 1:48:58 PM PST by buwaya
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