Hi, Ed Thanks for map
They forget the basques... Anyway, if hungarians and finnish speak same branch of language, and they are not related genetically a) something is missing in study b) language has nothing to do with population origin Besides, as placed in an answer, that is probably statistical. I read another genetical map in which irish, british, french and catalans are completely related and different form neigbourgs. Statistics are many times misleading; they could be used to proof what ever one desires. Just question to choose the adequate variables. A two variables plot, is just a cut of a multi-dimension representation, that could show a very distorted image of reality. Would be like to see world through a small hole. With best wishes Lluís ----- Original Message ----- From: ED To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 4:41 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: FW: Quote from St. Thomas Aquinas Genetic map of Europe http://bigthink.com/ideas/21358 "Two observations spring to mind immediately: the fact that most populations overlap so intimately with their neighbours. And that Finland doesn't. The isolation of Finnish genetics can be explained by the fact that they were at one time a very small population, preserving its genetic idiosyncrasies as it expanded." --- In [email protected], Lluís Mendieta <lme...@...> wrote: > > Hi, Ed > > Sorry for my poor english > I tried to mean that the rest of europeans, excluding finnish, and for that, hungarians, lapons and seems basques, speak an indo european idiom. And probably population origin in Asia > > Finnish are also westerner in my mindset (yes, it s said that they come here as invaders, with Attila; so maybe central asia origin) > > I do not see them as easterner language..But not being a linguist, I maybe very well wrong, > > Anyway, there is (or at least was) an extreme moviment in Hungarian that relates them as related to japanese, the turanism. > > With best wishes > > Lluís
