The English and the Celts - no genocide?

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Aaaah … I feel better now

Hi Quadratus,

To make you feel even better, Stephen Oppenheimer is not a professional geneticist. His area of expertise is in the synthesis of separate fields of study, genetics being one of them. Whatever people claim he said about germanic being spoken in britain pre roman times, his actual words were 'possibly spoken'. He didn't even go so far as to say 'probably spoken'.

The idea that Celtic languages in the west came from Iberia shows that he also doesn't believe in homogeneity. I guess it would receive support from Vennemann who claims Semitic -> Vasconic -> Celtic. But, it's only one part of the british isles and there is no reason to suppose that the rest spoke just one language. Jackson's work show many hydronyms which are neither Celtic nor Germanic, something which seems to have been forgotten in this debate.

best

Harry Amphlett