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From: "Lee K. Ramsey" <>
Subject: [DNA] U106 in North Germany
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:23:17 -0400


According to the "The National Encyclopedia" (1945), GERMANIC or TEUTONIC is
an Indo-European linguistic stock of the centum-group, subdivided into East
Germanic (Gothic and some other extinct languages), North Germanic or
Scandinavian (Swedish, Dano-Norwegian, Ice-landic) and West Germanic
(English, Frisian, Dutch and German). English and Frisian being sometimes
treated as a separate group called Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic.



The Indo-European Centum-Languages include Kanisian(?), Greek, Italic,
Ligurian, Celtic, Germanic, and Tokharian, of which only the first and last
are found outside Europe.



This brief overview of the western Indo-European language subgroups seems to
indicate that haplogroup R1b (S28) during the Late Bronze Age (1200-1000
BCE) in Western Europe and the British Isles were close in culture and
genetics, but were separated more or less by language and geographic
regions.



As an independent branch of the Centum-Languages, the several branches of
the Celtic language has been postulated by scholars as an early period of
Italo-Celtic unity. This also seems consistent with Rlb Proto-Italo Celtic
people.



Lee



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