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To: Cronos

Well, it sounds then that you live among many Slavs… who speak a Slavic language.

This is why I gave you most of your +44/100 grade.

Enjoy!

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“ Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabited the Polish territories during the late antiquity period. ”

“ Polish (Polish: język polski, is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script.”


197 posted on 08/17/2023 8:13:33 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
“ Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabited the Polish territories during the late antiquity period. ”

It's not that simple -- ethnic "Poles" as in those who consider themselves Polish and have had "polish" ancestry for the past say 200 years have varied ancestors

in what is now Poland there first lived Celtic tribes (you can find the archaeological remains in the Warsaw Archaelogical museum) then came Goths (the Celts supposedly moved, but a chunk remained, hence the prevalence of red hair), then came the West Slavs

Eastern Germans - Poles - Rusyni are in a genetic spectrum very similar to each other

the "Russians" are even more diverse - the core Russians being a mix of Finno-Ugric and Slavic and Baltic peoples -- this is visible in, say, Putin, with his slightly "chinky" eyes. But beyond that, the Tatars were absorbed into the Russian peoples (the Tatar princes became Russian nobles) and then came Baltic Germans, etc. etc.

If you dial back 1500 years all the "Slavs" were one "nation" - dial back 2500 years and the Slavs, Balts were one "nation" - dial back 4000 years and the Slavs, Balts, Iranic, Indic, Celts, Italics, Nordics, Greek, Albanian, Armenian etc. were one "nation"

330 posted on 08/18/2023 7:03:43 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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