Re: Ossetians and Pashto similarities

From: benlizross (benlizro_at_ihug.co.nz)
Date: 09/05/04

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    Daniel wrote:
    >
    > "AlexV" <alexV@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<wsydne4UQ9v_eKXcRVn-qA@comcast.com>...
    > > Ancestors of Pashtuns and Ossetians are by and large the same people: those
    > > tribes from Anatolia who first began speaking PIE 10,000-6,000 years ago. Of
    > > course, over centuries and millennia through migration and perhaps mixing
    > > with some other groups a certain admixture of other ethnic genes could have
    > > taken place. I hope one day it will be elucidated and clearly documented via
    > > genetic population studies.
    >
    > this is intersting. do u know about the
    > research on mitochondrial DNA and the language link...?
    >
    > migration of people is only half the issue. turns
    > out theres genetic similarities matching with language
    > similarities not explicible by migration histories alone. we
    > need another way to explain this but - heres what mattters - it still
    > can be understood as geneticly influenced.
    >
    > theres maybe something on this in the library. i could dig
    > up references if u r interested.

    i m interested. references?

    Ross Clark

    >
    > one small question - what are {ethnic genes}?
    >
    > > That infantile blabbering about African-Americans speaking English in
    > > America is a shitty smokescreen. Modern population migration patterns have
    > > no parallel in history in scope and magnitude. In the past when people moved
    > > they took their language with them. Again, by and large.
    >
    > dont pay no heed to the blabbering. some folk never cease pushing
    > their lib agenda.
    >
    > |best regards|
    >
    > .dan.
    >
    > millenium II punctuation

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