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To: Renfield

Mmm...

I was under the impression that the Basque relatives of ancient Irish were Celtic...


7 posted on 07/13/2013 11:31:42 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

The Basques are not Celtic. The Basque language is “disconnected”, that is, not organically related to any other known language. The Celtic languages are Indo-European and are related distantly to other European languages.


16 posted on 07/13/2013 11:41:13 AM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: jjotto

The people of Galicia in Spain have a Celtic background.


28 posted on 07/13/2013 12:01:08 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: jjotto

Yes. And they also play bagpipes.


58 posted on 07/13/2013 2:16:50 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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