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To: blam

Celts, Germans, Latins and Slavs all speak Indo-European who are believed to have come from the East. Ancient peoples who first settled Europe probably spoke something akin to Basque. Europeans are a hybrid race. Why they chose Indo-European languages over their ancient tongues remains a mystery.


21 posted on 05/06/2008 10:33:43 AM PDT by Eternal_Bear (`)
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Tocharians

"The Tocharians were the easternmost speakers of an Indo-European language in antiquity, inhabiting the Tarim basin in what is now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern People's Republic of China. "

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24 posted on 05/06/2008 11:02:18 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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