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Thread #11483   Message #3896849
Posted By: GUEST,Theoriser
02-Jan-18 - 04:55 AM
Thread Name: Yan Tan Tethera - more words in the count?
Subject: RE: Yan Tan Tethera - more words in the count?
New discoveries are coming in all the time, and several theories need to be revised. Firstly, genetics have proved beyond all reasonable doubt that all of the "modern" Indo-European languages stem from the steppe within the last 4,OOO years, so any Anatolian migration would have had to have happened much earlier. Secondly, when I first made these posts, like most people in Britain I was completely unaware of the existence of early Welsh historical records and the writings of Alan Wilson, Baram Blackett and Adrian Gilbert. To cut a long story short, they record that Brutus of Troy travelled by sea with a large army, and settled in Britain around 117O BC, based on the Brut Tysilio and other writings. At that time, the people of Troy spoke Luwian which is an Anatolian language closely related to Hittite. Alan Wilson has received a fair amount of academic flak trying to discredit him; all I can say is that I believe "yan, tan, tethera" to have had an Anatolian origin, and that this is entirely consistent with his claim.