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English And Welsh Are Races Apart
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| 6-30-2002
Posted on 07/04/2002 5:27:12 PM PDT by blam
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To: Jimer
Twghry is pronounced as /toxri/.
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posted on
08/30/2002 10:02:05 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: sneakypete
languages spoken by the Finns,the Hungarians,and the Mari. The closest language to Finnish is Estonian. All these languages are Altaic, and related to many languages of northern Russia. Also to Japanese and Korean.
Basque is the big mystery. .. along with some Amerindian languages (Zuni and Navajo, I think).
To: blam
I haven't read that book, but I understand that there were Indo-European speakers in the region of the Cherchen desert. I suppose that the region was more hospitable a couple of thousand years ago.
To: eniapmot
"I suppose that the region was more hospitable a couple of thousand years ago." They were there 4,000 years ago. 3,000 year old fabrics from the mummies there are just like those at the Celtic sites at Hallstat. There is some speculation that they were the speakers of Tocharian A/B.
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posted on
08/30/2002 10:22:25 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Jimer; LostTribe
Good link, thanks.
The modern day Uygurs have choosen one (the reconstructed image) of the caucasian mummies discovered there"The Beauty Of Loulan" as a national symbol, 'The mother of our country.' Her image now appears on coins, flags and etc.
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posted on
08/30/2002 10:32:17 AM PDT
by
blam
To: eniapmot
"Basque is the big mystery. .. along with some Amerindian languages (Zuni and Navajo, I think)." See my link in post #262.
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posted on
08/30/2002 10:34:29 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Jimer
4,000 year old Beauty Of Loulan.
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posted on
08/30/2002 10:38:05 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Jimer
Flag of England |
Flag of Wales |
Flag of Uighur |
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posted on
08/30/2002 12:43:00 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: blam
That's not the way I read it. They migrated
to Cherchen 4000 years ago, but nobody is sure when they left, except that they may have been in Afghanistan in 200 AD.
Anyway, thanks for the reference
To: PJ-Comix
I believe Estonian is very similar to Finnish. The capital of Estonia is Tallinn. That sounds kind of Finnish to me. I dunno. Could be,but I've never seen Estonian grouped in with Finnish,Hungarian,and Mari as a "Finno-Ugiric" language. Then again,it's not very far from Finland,and is a likely landing place for any Finns who were migrating to Yoshkar-Ola,or visa-versa.
To: blam
Does anyone know who the people were that spoke/wrote Tocharian A and B? I surely don't know. Never even heard of them before your post. A good place to find the answers to questions like this can be found by doing a Google search using "Endangered Languages" as the keywords. LOTS of fascinating web sites will pop up.
To: eniapmot
The closest language to Finnish is Estonian. I saw this on another post,and don't believe this is true when it comes to the older forms of Finnish. While there is no doubt there must be a lot of overlap by this time due to Estonia being right on the coast and the most logical route through Russia. Like I wrote earlier,I did a web search on endangered languages after my last trip to Russia,and Mari is a endangered language that is ONLY related to the Finnish language and Hungarian. Estonian isn't or wasn't listed as being a Finno-Ugric language back then. language
To: Cacique; rmlew; firebrand; Dutchy; StarFan; nutmeg; RaceBannon; Coleus; Oschisms; craqed
Neat discussion.
To: keithtoo
Listen Keithtoo and the rest of you. I speak thre truth! One can plainly see 90% of all Brittsh people look just like Jews and Syrians (save for nose shape). This Danish/Northern German genes/ancestry bit for English is true but its still as good as a bunch of bull. The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings were mostly all men. They came to Britain and married (or just mixed with) the largely Syrian descended British ladies living there. And for a time quite Syrian descended British men continued to cross with the native Syrian-British ladies. But the Viking men, who came after the German men, finished the job of Y chromosoming the Syrian Y out of existence in England. Later when England got powerful English soldiers began strutting their stuff all over Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (these areas had been usually less Viking settled than England). As a result of soldier crossing they all started looking more like the Enlish and getting the occasional Viking/German Y chromosome. Really the English are usually 50-70% Syrian themselves. The Welsh 70-90% Syrian. THe Irish 60-90%. The Scots 60-70%. The fact that a lot of Welsh are usually light skinned (though there are olive-skinned exceptions) doesn't mean they're that significantly of German/Viking blood. Its that Wales is geographically cold a lot of the year and mother nature "felt"that their few Viking/German genes would serve them better for fair skin suitable to a mostly cold climate than their way larger amount of Meditteranean/syrian genes for olive skin. Mother nature is like that. A bunch of grizzly bears turned out to be like 70-80% polar bear in genes but yet the bears looked just like grizzlies. Why? Because mother nature felt these bears living so far south of the North Pole would be better suited to have their small of grizzly genes predominate. Same (pretty much) for the British.
To: muawiyah
There are hints, based upon artifacts, that there were Celts in Spain circa 1800 B.C.. This could explain the intermixture with the Basque. Assuming the Basque is indigenous to Spain.
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posted on
05/25/2003 9:28:07 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(Further, the statement assumed)
To: blam
We went through this exact same thing several months ago. The conclusion was the same as it always has been ! the Anglo-Saxon heathens must return from whence they came.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; LostTribe
OK, that does it, I can claim I am totally Celtic. Granparents were Danish, English, German which came from the same stock. So now, you too, can check the "other" box on the census forms and write in Celtic.
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posted on
05/25/2003 4:44:24 PM PDT
by
SCalGal
To: TRUTHFULTOTHECORE
This one post disputes everything that you've said. BTW, Welcome aboard
Cheddar Man (9,000 year old Brits)
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posted on
05/25/2003 4:46:00 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
with Offa's Dyke acting as a "genetic barrier" I could see where that could be a genetic barrier.
To: muawiyah
"We went through this exact same thing several months ago. The conclusion was the same as it always has been ! the Anglo-Saxon heathens must return from whence they came."LOL. I think this is the same thread. It's almost a year old.
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posted on
05/25/2003 4:47:31 PM PDT
by
blam
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