Melancon
Banned
- Messages
- 467
- Reaction score
- 35
- Points
- 0
- Location
- Lafayette, Louisiana
- Ethnic group
- Celto-Germanic (70% Cajun French - 30% English)
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b (S21) - Nordic
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H (H1) - Atlantid
What was the original language group of Neolithic and Mesolithic Europeans?
Was it Vasconic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasconic_languages
Or even Uralic???:
Many here would say that they spoke their own dialects, within each cultural site. For example; (Cardium Pottery; Kongemose Culture)
However, I kind of doubt that this is true; considering all the cultures in Mesolithic Europe pretty much shared the same Y-DNA; around Europe. (I1, I2, G2a, E-V13, T.) etc. (which suggests that many of these migrant people assimilated; rather than slaughtered the indigenous people; like the Indo-Europeans did.)
What is interesting about the Basque language; as well as Uralic languages, is that their words tend to lack genders. It seems that only Indo-European languages carry gender nouns; and that this is mainly an IE thing.
It is very likely that there were many cultures who spoke different language groups- As suggested here before. But I am sure that there was an even bigger language group amongst these languages; that Europeans may have spoke, in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Before the arrival of Indo-European dialects.
The high frequency of Haplogroup T in Estonian people and Komis (Uralic speaking peoples) may suggest to me that Uralic may have been dominant in Neolithic Europe; a few centuries before Indo-European conquest/assimilation.
It is also very possible that they spoke the extinct Tyrsenian languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrsenian_languages
What is very interesting; is that Indo-European seems to be the only language group; where the majority of it's dialects have gender nouns. Whereas in Vasconic or Uralic languages; this is virtually none existent. And I am pretty sure Tyrsenian languages did not have genders in their languages either. It seems almost exclusively relative to Indo-European.
Was it Vasconic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasconic_languages
Or even Uralic???:
Many here would say that they spoke their own dialects, within each cultural site. For example; (Cardium Pottery; Kongemose Culture)
However, I kind of doubt that this is true; considering all the cultures in Mesolithic Europe pretty much shared the same Y-DNA; around Europe. (I1, I2, G2a, E-V13, T.) etc. (which suggests that many of these migrant people assimilated; rather than slaughtered the indigenous people; like the Indo-Europeans did.)
What is interesting about the Basque language; as well as Uralic languages, is that their words tend to lack genders. It seems that only Indo-European languages carry gender nouns; and that this is mainly an IE thing.
It is very likely that there were many cultures who spoke different language groups- As suggested here before. But I am sure that there was an even bigger language group amongst these languages; that Europeans may have spoke, in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Before the arrival of Indo-European dialects.
The high frequency of Haplogroup T in Estonian people and Komis (Uralic speaking peoples) may suggest to me that Uralic may have been dominant in Neolithic Europe; a few centuries before Indo-European conquest/assimilation.
It is also very possible that they spoke the extinct Tyrsenian languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrsenian_languages
What is very interesting; is that Indo-European seems to be the only language group; where the majority of it's dialects have gender nouns. Whereas in Vasconic or Uralic languages; this is virtually none existent. And I am pretty sure Tyrsenian languages did not have genders in their languages either. It seems almost exclusively relative to Indo-European.