I thought that I ought to bring the unwelcome news that the DNA experts,
having failed to fit their results to any plausible linguistic model, have
now decided that a Germanic language was spoken in England before the Roman
conquest. (Except for the Belgae who, being Belgian, spoke Gaulish...) The
Celtic-speaking areas were populated by the descendants of the Basques.
(Stephen Oppenheimer, The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story,
2006)
Please don't shoot the messenger.
John Briggs
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