> It may be difficult to explain
why they lost their ancestral language so quickly,
if they did. But
unless and until I am faced with evidence that
they did not lose it, I will
assume that they did,
Thank You, I appreciate your candor. None of which has anything to do with The Lost Tribes of Israel becoming the Celts/Europeans/Americans/Christians of today.
Well, speaking as someone who's about as pure Gaelic as you get in Ireland (to judge by great grandparents' names, I'm one-eighth Norman, one-eighth Old English, and three-quarters Gaelic,) I must say I have no consciousness of being part of any lost tribe of Israel.