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Do the Mongols count?

So many styles... Which is your favourite? I'm personally divided betreen Romanesque, Ottonian and Gothic.

But, Maciamo, are you not forgetting that one of the main reasons there are so many North African immigrants in France is its colonial history and the state of affairs it left its ex-colonies? Also, I find it logical that they are clinging to their ethnic and cultural roots because they are...

Wasn't it claimed that Basque and Iberian numerals are cognate? Numerals would be one of the most probable terms a hunter-gatherer population would borrow from an agricultural one, in my opinion.

By any chance, are the Basque agricultural terms related to the Iberian ones? Or are they internally reconstructible from other earlier vocabulary?

The Kyrie of the Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut, one of the most famous composers and poets the 14th century:

You are right, I always confuse those two. And this could be added to the fact that, by c. 2300 BC, the difference between the dialects of IE must nut have been quite large.

Personally, I have the theory that this "hybrid nature" can be explained by the entrance of the Beaker culture from Central Europe to northern Europe, thus bringing Proto-Italo-Celtic vocabulary and perhaps the Centum sound shift (whatever the case, we can be sure laryngeals must have been hard...

Apart from that, it's also safe to say that the Anatolian branch broke off from PIE earlier than any other branch (what would be the dominant haplogroup of the proto-Anatolians, R1b or R1a?). I would also argue in favour of a deeper genetic relationship between Balto-Slavic and Germanic, but of...

Indeed. There reason there are so many IE subgrouping models, and none very conclusive, is because of the difficulty in finding these lexical correspondences.

What I mean is that, although I agree that there was a population movement, I don't think the movement was cultural or linguistic, or that the Beaker folk were ethnolinguistically homogeneous. I think that for example, while the Central European beakers were probably Indo-European (R1b), the...

As for the relationship between Basque and Iberian, I would say that, as with the aDNA results of G2a recently found in Mediterranean Iberia, it would at least to me seem likely that the Iberian language is from the Neolithic. It thus follows that if Iberian and Basque are related, then Basque...

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Really? I have a Basque friend and one from Barcelona, and i hear them exactly the same... Then again, maybe you develop a more expert ear for the different accents on the place one lives.

They certainly are, many more can be found here: http://www.estelasdecoradas.co.cc/estelas_ext/paginas/catalogo_estelas.htm The linguistic aspect certainly is a complicated one. What could be is Tartessian originating later in the Iron Age, and/or the stelae being "Proto-Lusitanian" perhaps?

In Mexico, there certainly are different accents spoken by the indigenous communities around the country, especially as for many it is their second language. However, in the case of Basque I believe it's different, as Spanish has been around (at least in the urban areas) for a very long time...

What would you think of the possibility of Tartessian being an IE but non-Celtic language (like Lusitanian)? I say this because in the Late Bronze Age, Southwest Iberia participated fully in the Atlantic metallurgical complex, and not only that, but also these stone slabs have been found, which...

Widespread bilingualism and cultural homogeneity, in my opinion.

Something I find against the theory of the Beaker culture being Indo-European is their practice of megalithism. In Scandinavia and the North European Plain, megalithism was thriving during the non-IE Funnelbeaker Culture, but quickly died out with the arrival of the IE Corded Ware complex (it...

Maciamo, you mention that "the oldest Bronze age culture in Western Europe is found in Portugal (2600 BCE, and possibly as early as 2900 BCE)"... Don't you mean Copper Age? The Bronze Age only started in Iberia at around the beginning of the 2nd millenium BC as far as I know.