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From: rickw@eskimo.com (Richard Wojcik)
Subject: Re: PIU Research:  Are the Armenians and the Celts Related?
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In article <4mk3kj$k8j@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>,
Antonio <olskool@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>The People's International University is currently researching the following 
>question:  What is the connection between the Armenians and the Celts of Old
>Europe?
>
>Although the two languages bear little in common in the way of surface
>features, some linguists propose there is a connection.

As far as I know, all linguists propose the connection.  It is commonly
accepted that two languages are related if you can establish systematic
sound correspondences between cognate words.  This method has been used to
show that the Celtic and Armenian languages belong to the Indoeuropean
language family.

>After all, there were Galatians (a Celtic people) in Asia Minor at the time
>of Christ.   Why couldn't the original Celts have come from the area around
>Armenia?

Or the Armenians from Ireland?  I think that the Celts in Asia Minor were
generally believed to have migrated from Europe.  There was an Anatolian
branch of IE that existed there long before the Celts arrived.  I don't
think that there is any evidence that Armenian and Celtic languages are
more closely related to each other than to other IE languages.
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Rick Wojcik  rickw@eskimo.com     Seattle (for locals: Bellevue), WA
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