Re: Celtic Origins

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:35:25 GMT, "Alan Crozier"
<name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Would trade and commerce be enough to make a native population
>adopt a new language? I would imagine that it would require some
>speakers of the new language actually settling in the country.

Just settling?!? That usually means in more concrete terms to kill the
males and rape the females.

>If those speakers also had power and prestige there would be
>greater incentive for the natives to adopt the new language.

Oh, there you are.

>In other words, I incline to the old view of the Celts as an
>invading warrior aristocracy in Ireland, whose language
>gradually dominated and eradicated the old one(s). The speakers
>of Celtic need not have been numerous to achieve this, just
>powerful. This old view is not inconsist with the latest DNA
>evidence.
>
>Or am I missing something?

Not really. It would fit the most likely pattern.

fkoe
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