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Indeed! I've never thought about the Franks, but yes!

There are alternatives. Spanish/Castillian has not lost the fought yet. The globbish English language - could we call it "newlang"? - is loosing its nature, and is becoming a kind of creole. The "second-language Anglophones" have outnumbered the native speakers. The same is not true about...

In the absolute, American Castillian/Spanish. It is the more widespread one. And, if we drew a cluster of all the Romance languages, Castillian would be in the middle, as it is the one having empirical/practical affinities with all the others. But otherwise, if I had to relocate in an official...

I never understood the point of reading more recent texts and tree names with a fossilised pronunciation. Classical Latin was spoken for how long? 500 years? I can't believe the pronunciation had not evolved with the centuries. By the time my ancestors were Romanised, their new language was...

There are two words: 1. "aiwe", from Latin "aqua"; 2. the P-Celtic word. From "ex"+"pede(m)". Several words of the same family: "piter", "copiter". The first meaning of "spiter" is "to kick". There are, indeed, LOTS of Germanic words in Walloon. And the fact that the adjective is normally...

I think the language shifts before the 20th century were very different from those from the 20th century onwards. For instance: 1. the spread of the IE languages, and the loss of the neolithic European ones; 2. the Celtic to Romance; and 3. the present-day language shifts are all different from...

So here I come like a fly in the soup, many years after the last message in this thread. I read what you, guys, have written, and am adding a few reflections of mine. In order to understand the past, some things (not all) that are happening right now can explain things. So, the first topic is...

The Albanian language has a high amount of Latin words, even Celtic words. Most of them concord either with Lombard, or with Romanian, or both. Also the Christian vocabulary is from the same strand. It would be interesting indeed to see more U152 Albanians. You, guys, are the "missing link", if...

French: although it is my second language, it is my preferred one. I love its perpetual metaphors, its easy grammar, the beauty of the 1835 orthography (in spite of imperfections like "j" instead of "g" in many words), its potential of expressing so many things and emotions. I like its...

Maciamo, could you make also two different maps of K, one to show only those IE clades, and another with the neolithical K? Such maps would be very useful. Thank you in advance!

Thank you, Maciamo, for this! Well done! I also believe that linguistics and genetics must converge. When genetics didn't exist, linguistics were used to explain history. Now genetics can correct some of the errors of the past.

I found in the Alps two words, whereof at least one must be of a Semitic substrate, maybe both: 1. bĕroth (Aram.), burasu (Assyr.), bĕrosh (Hebr.) || breze, bremva, brenga, breyngon, brea (← *breda), brata, brin?ul, brin?ul, brondyon ("conifer, larch, fir, cembro"); 2. bayt, bet || bait...

It seems to me that the only two qualities of MyHeritage are that they also speak French, and that they focus on Jews. Their vague categories like "Balkanic" or "Northen European" or "Italian" mean nothing. Not even political correctitude. I had very different results with FTDNA, where I also...