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Comment on The North Africa connection by same

same — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:21:55 +0000

What’s a mere 1% got to do with anything? (it is commonly held that ALL peoples originate from Africa). The fact that ONLY 5% of No. African DNA is genetically Arab, tells the story of acculturation rather than a true blood-line. Also Ireland’s Trinity College DNA study tells a clear story of No. Africans who settled in the Basque region before finally settling in IRELAND.

Scot’s are genetically Scandinavian and Celtic… Celts are the people of GAUL! The Welsh are also of Celtic origin. Outside of the geographic proximity to Scotland, the and Ulster, isn’t time the ‘Black Irish’ begin to discover it’s unique lineage.

Comment on The North Africa connection by mara

mara — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:08:06 +0000

had dna done — 2 granparents Irish, one scot-irish another sicilian———– my test results were: mostly berber and spanish and some small percentage of scot and scandinavian—– and native american (the latter was a surprise, had to be the scot-irish been in US over 300 years and lived in wilderness areas!) The Irish great grandparents lived in the wild west or ireland (galway, mayo)—so berber and spanish didnt surprise me –wow what about the Spanish Gate in Galway City—those Spanish sailors got around! Spent some winter months in Galway (few tourists) and saw many native men that looked like my sicilian relatives/friends —pretty good looking ha

Comment on The North Africa connection by Patricia Morales

Patricia Morales — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:16:39 +0000

Recently, I had a DNA test done because I had little knowledge of where my ancestors came from, other than the British Isles in general. The DNA results were surprising, showing that my background is 97% mixture of North African Berber and Basque. The other 3% was a various mix of Portuguese, Spanish, Finnic, and a smidgin of the middle east. The linguistic pathway, just seems to follow the genetics, I’d say.

Comment on The North Africa connection by Borut

Borut — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:46:54 +0000

Just a call from Slovenia!:)

From the below text by te late Prof. Jožko Šavli: “THE NAMES PERTAINING TO A LANGUAGE, WHICH AFTER MY STUDIES WAS ALSO SPOKEN BY THE ANCIENT ILLYRIANS, THRACIANS, DACIANS, AS WELL AS BY THE VENETI AND THE (CONTINENTAL) CELTS, ETC.”

Here’s a link, possibly of some general interest to the discussed topic!?:)

http://www.angelfire.com/country/veneti/SavliPlaceNames.html

Comment on The North Africa connection by Archer

Archer — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:33:19 +0000

Very interesting post. Britain and Ireland seem very much tied to the neolithic expansions (mainly-also some earlier and some bronze age movements happened too) of people along the western Atlantic coast, which of course includes North Africa. The Beaker people were also in North Africa, and they have been found to carry y-dna R1b, the most common dna type in western Europe but also the overwhelming type in Britain and Ireland, the Basque country and elsewhere in the west. Alhough most Berber men carry clades of y-dna E, a minority do carry the most western R1 as well.

Comment on The North Africa connection by howiefirth

howiefirth — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:45:01 +0000

I’m very glad to hear from you and very interested to hear about these words. I do think that the evidence suggests that the berbers were the people who sailed up the coasts of France and Iberia and up the Irish Sea in the neolithic period. I have found some other possible connections and will write them up in the next day or so and will be interested to hear your views.

Comment on The North Africa connection by howiefirth

howiefirth — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:42:52 +0000

Many thanks, I’ve long admired Heinrich Wagner’s work and am glad to have this opportunity to highlight it.

Comment on The North Africa connection by Kamal

Kamal — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:46:03 +0000

Im berber from Algeria we have few words in comon like,canu in old welsh for singing,which we use chanu and Foot which we use in berber Fudh which is quite similar in pronuncition.
Very interesting research i should conclude. Thanks

Comment on Understanding the Higgs 1: Frozen light by andrew

andrew — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:54:48 +0000

good egg

Comment on The North Africa connection by Rose Kahendi (@RKahendi)

Rose Kahendi (@RKahendi) — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:39:48 +0000

Interesting.