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Plenty of evidence? Yes, see, I know this. You probably also know this. It's not my duty (even though more than once, I have labeled as doing just that) to uphold orthodoxy. It's not my duty here to...

Dublin, what if I told you that Slavic languages were spoken only in a relatively small area in Eastern Europe as late as the 400s AD, and that Serbians as a distinct ethnic group did not come into...

Faux's hypothesis is basically that R1b-U152 arrived in Britain from Jutland via the Cimbri. To be honest, it doesn't make much sense to me: I can agree with Faux - based on the distribution of...

After the German linguist Wolfram Euler ("Sprache und Herkunft der Germanen"), the Cimbri can very well have been Germanic, rather than Celtic. Specifically if one assumes that the Proto-Germanic...

So you basically say that they were Germanic just because Tacitus says so? Have you ever even heard of Grimm's Law, for starters?



That's amazing. You're basically throwing over board every...

There's a difference between a primary source and the contemporary academic discussion. But you should consider that neither Julius Caesar nor Tacitus were linguists or anthropologists. Also, if you...

Nobody1, why do you keep posting obviously outdated (19th century) sources? I'd look the other way if it was 1988, but 1899 can be hardly considered a 'modern' scholar. I recommend you to read...

"Italo-Celtic" is an established concept in linguistics: it refers to common features that the Celtic languages and the Italic languages have in common. Wether this is due to a common ancestral...

Dublin, no offense, but I picked the example of Welsh as an obvious lark... yet you commited yourself to this idea.

Seriously, as far as I know, there is no evidence for trans-atlantic contact...

Excellent find, Maciamo!

Regarding the Vandal origins, what are you basing the assumption on that they were originally from Sweden? I think R1b-U106 makes a fair bit of sense: The earliest...

I'm precisely having an explanation here, and I've tried to elaborate that using the example of "ll" in Welsh: that there may be no clear pattern here.



Are Cornish, Breton, Welsh, Celtiberian,...

Funny, that accusation makes no sense, because I wasn't even talking about the Celtic languages. I was only talking about the origin of R1b, which didn't originate on the Iberian peninsula.

I find...

R1b did not originate in Iberia. Why do you still keep believing this? There is no data to back such a claim up. You can also check the tree of R1b again:...

Dublin,

before you, or indeed anybody else, make speculations based on the occurence of a certain sound, let me give you an educative counterexample: the Welsh language has a distinct sound, the...

I was going to make a longer reply here about my own views, but I'm going for something slightly different.

Family Tree DNA's R1b data is fairly large - large enough to have, in my opinion, a...

Hmm. Interesting thread revival.

I'm still not convinced that U152 is of "Roman" origin: more specifically, I do not think that it is associated in any way with the Italic tribes of pre-Roman...

No, you are still using the same strawman argument here. What you are doing here is "I pretend that PIE palatovelars do not exist because I arbitrarily equate PIE *s with the palatovelars", which is...

You are doing something very selective here. You are ignoring the fact that with the examples, Albanian "gj" does not correspond with any one of the palatovelars but PIE *s, as can be demonstrated...

Seriously Yetos, you're totally escalating yourself into this. And I would like to remind you that this isn't the first time. You're also making a lot of ad-hoc assumptions and accusation about the...

Before comparing Georgian with English, have you looked what the word for 'dog' is in the other Kartvelian languages? Bear in mind that Georgian is not an isolate language.


Could you explain to...

I think that is entirely besides the point. The point is the difference between what he actually said in the interview and what was posted in the article, and what the media subsequently made of him:...

I agree. I'm personally cautious with river names because we usually do not know how old they actually are if we just take a look at the modern names. We can look into Graeco-Roman sources for...

This is actually the original story. Professor Church was actually misquoted (not in the original article), and the rest of the media exaggerated and extrapolated... :wary2:

Here is a transcript...

I'd like to know to what language he attributes the river names in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia, if they are purportedly not Germanic. Because that would be the consequence if the place...

It is not a confirmation rather the opposite, because, as I elaborated:



Lemnian and Etruscan are very similar (perhaps Catalan vs. Castillian Spanish). If there was a Cardium Pottery...