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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 02:15:23 GMT
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In article <petrichCztrD7.M0B@netcom.com>,
Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>The Basque people of historical times 
>were holed up in the Pyrenees, rather far from any ocean.
>

Excuse me?  Euskera is spoken today along the Atlantic coast
from Bilbao to Bayonne.  In earlier times, languages closely
related to Basque were probably spoken all the way from
Asturias to Bordeaux, assuming the Cantabri and Aquitani were 
of Basque stock, as is likely.

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