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Sardinia too, at least in the highlands. The Basques and the Sardinians are very closely related: the PIE-speaker conquest basically never touched them. (~10% S
by quotemstr 7y ago
Sardinia too, at least in the highlands. The Basques and the Sardinians are very closely related: the PIE-speaker conquest basically never touched them. (~10% Steppe ancestry, with ~0% in some inland villages.) Unlike Basque, though, the neolithic Sardinian language didn't survive --- except in a few place names.
- opportune 7y agoInteresting, I would have thought that the Sardinians would have more mixed ancestry after the Carthaginians/Romans interacted with them. I was aware that they had an ancient culture but not that it was non-PIE