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From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Indo-European Y-DNA
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:14:11 -0400
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From: "Jackson Montgomery-Devoni" <>
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Indo-European Y-DNA


>
> Rich,
>
>
> Alright J2 is associated with Semitic languages is the Near East today and
> in ancient times, but how do you know what language the first Neolithic
> farmers spoke? It could have easily been an Indo-European or other language
> and a group of them may have spread north to the Black sea area, mixed with
> the R1a1 peoples up there and then formed the Kurgan culture. The ones back
> in the Near East may have then been swamped by speakers of other languages
> and then lost all trace of the original language.
>
> I do not think that the original people of Turkey spoke a Semitic language
> before Turkish got there.
>
> Check out this site also:
> http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/11/new-paper-on-indian-y-chromosome.html
>
>
> Jackson
> Y-DNA J2a1*
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If you are saying the E3b and J2 farmers in the Balkans were Indo-Europeanized by contact with groups of Indo-Europeans, then I agree. I just don't think there is any good reason to believe that those E3b and J2 farmers were themselves the original Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Have you read Dr. J.P. Mallory's In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth?

Rich


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