English And Welsh Are Races Apart

BBC ^ | 6-30-2002

[blam]

Stonehenge 'King" Was From Central Europe

[blam]

Ancestry Of Europeans Traced To The Middle East (They were proto-Celtics)

[aristeides]

The study was of the Y-chromosome, passed from father to son. So invading Anglo-Saxon men still could have bred with indigenous Briton women. I don't think this study would rule that possibility out.

[blam]

"I don't think this study would rule that possibility out. "

I can't disagree.

[sphinx]

I thought everybody knew Troy was an Irish-thing!

That would explain why they dragged that danged horse into the city without checking ....

[Myrddin]

In the book The Story of English they make the point that the Welsh and the people of Normandy can make themselves understood with either of them speaking the others' language. How does this figure in?

Welsh, Cornish and Breton come from the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages. When I read Breton, I perceive it as a mix of French and Welsh. Fortunately I know a fair bit of both, thus I find it mostly understandable. The last native Cornish speakers died about 15 years ago. We may have lost that language.

The Goidelic branch of Celtic languages include Manx, Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. There are word similarities between Brythonic and Goidelic branches. Welsh for Christmas is "Nadolig". In Irish Gaelic it is "Nollaig". Welsh numbers count, "un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump, chwech, saith, wyth, naw, deg". In Irish Gaelic, "aon, do/, tri/, ceathair, cu/ig, se/, seacht, ocht, naoi, deich". People who use e-mail in Celtic languages find a need for various diacritical markings that "travel well" in e-mail. I used a slash trailing certain vowels to indicate an apostrophe over the vowel. Welsh requires the caret symbol for certain vowels. A UNICODE alphabet is due soon to remedy the omissions in the typical Latin alphabets.

[Elliott Jackalope]

My wife has a big huge dose of Celt in her heritage. It manifests itself in her amazing wanderlust. She loves nothing more than to travel to new places and look at new things. I'm about as Saxon as it gets, the old Germanic farmer stock. We make a good team. The Celts love to wander, us Saxons like to homestead and build stuff. She is continually amazed by my desire to stay where I am and build/do stuff, and I'm continually amazed by her wanderlust. Such is the history of us crazy Northern Europeans.

[blam]

I've speculated that somewhere in the past, the Picts were related to the Xiongnu

[blam]

Y Chromosone Rewrites British History

[chilepepper]

Since I'm writing this from Chile, I conclude the Celt part of my makeup is also dominant...

[RightWhale]

Gene scientists claim to have found proof that the Welsh are the "true" Britons.

Yes, and Arthur was of those Britons.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"Welsh are true Britons."

I smell REP - PAR - A - SHUNS acoming in.