Ten Tribes Studies (19 November, 2014, 26 Cheshvan, 5775)
Contents:
1. New Article. Scottish Broth
Scotland, UK and the EU - Update and More Potential Twists by John Thornton
2. New Article. True Blue and You.
Mikko Ojanen and Yair Davidiy: DNA and the Family of Nations
3. Addition to Article.
Welsh Hebrews. Israelite Children from the TTs Separated and Exiled to Wales???
Appendix. The Welsh Language and Hebrew
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1. New Article. Scottish Broth
Scotland, UK and the EU - Update and More Potential Twists by John Thornton
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/ca/th3.html
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2. New Article. True Blue and You.
Mikko Ojanen and Yair Davidiy: DNA and the Family of Nations
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/race/animals/blue.html
Contents:
(A) Yair Davidiy:
1. Introduction. Languages, In Built Changeability, and DNA
2. The Siberian Tiger. What Does Evolutionary Theory Say?
3. How Does Natural Change Work?
4. Some Examples of Animal Change in Our Time
Tolerance of Formerly Harmful Agents
Elephants without Tusks
Stray Dogs on Russian Subways. Read the Signs?
Hudson River Fish are Becoming Immune to Toxic Waste
Lizard Placenta (instead of eggs) Appeared in One Generation!
(B)Â Mikko Ojanen: DNA Haplogroups and the Sons of Noah, Shem, Japheth and Ham
(C) Conclusion
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3. Addition to Article.
Welsh Hebrews. Israelite Children from the TTs Separated and Exiled to Wales???
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/childrenwales.html
Appendix. The Welsh Language and Hebrew
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/childrenwales.html#x
Note only the Great Orme and County Conwy but much of the rest (perhaps all) of Wales was also settled by Hebrews.
This is reflected in the language.
The Welsh national bard Taliesin (ca. 600 CE?) is elsewhere quoted as saying that the language he spoke in was Hebrew.
The idea that Welsh was at least partly derived from Hebrew has been cicrulating for more than 400 years. Hundreds, possibly thousands of books and booklets have been written and published on the subject.
Some of them are discussed in the work,
"Comparing Welsh Hebrew" by Karel Jongeling (Netherlands, 2000).
The book is very technical but appears to point to the following conclusions:
Linguistically:
All Celtic languages (the British Isles, France, maybe parts of Germany)
were preceded by an "Afro-Asiatic" substratum similar to Egyptian.
In the British Isles there was a direct Hebrew element which is especially apparent in Welsh.
In addition the overriding layer of the language was Eastern Indo-European
similar to tongues that once existed in Iran, Turkey, and Russia.
This layer was probably derived from historical contact.
 Karel Jongeling at the end of his work says that he himself does not believe in a connection between Welsh and Hebrew.
The impression from what he wrote, in my opinion, would lead one to the opposite conclusion, i.e. that there must be something there.
The work by Jongeling was published by an academic institution. He himself is widely respected as a scholar. His work is well regarded. He is employed by a leading university in the Netherlands.
If he had said what the evidence in his book could suggest, that there is a link between Welsh and Hebrew, we may guess what may have happened. We may take as an examply Cyrus Gordon.
Cyrus Herzl Gordon (1908 - 2001), was an American Jewish scholar of Near Eastern cultures and ancient languages.
# Gordon is well known for his books on Ugaritic, the ancient language of 14th century (BC/BCE) coastal Syria, which were first published 1940 and he played a key role in deciphering that language. #
He also wrote a number of popular works.
Towards the end of his life he gave support to beliefs that the Ancient Hebrews and others had spread their influence farther and wider than was generally supposed.
In an Oral Communication tot he linguistic pioneer, Isaac Mozeson, he said that there was a limit to what he could say.
If he were to diverge too far from the accepted academic consensus, he said, the career of his students might be endangered. These had obtained their degrees under his tutelage and direction and who were therefore dependent on him not rocking the boat overduly.
What we said about Welsh is also apparently pertinent to Irish.
Chronicles of Eri
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_Eri
O'Connor's book title describes his scrolls as being in the "Phoenician dialect of the Scythian language". Little of his chronicle may be read without it being apparent that the language he awkwardly alludes to is Gaelic. The chronicle claims that Gaelic was spoken throughout Celtic Europe, this is now recognised by linguists who use Gaelic to interpret Celtic era place-names which are quite homogeneous over a large area of Europe, in line with classical claims of regional dialects of an essentially single Celtic language, now sometimes recalled as common Celtic. The chronicle claims Phoenician traders were not only able to understand this language, but that in fact it was them behind its spread. The old Gaelic for Gaelic is Bearla Feine or the Phoenician tongue.
The Phoenicians spoke a dialect of Hebrew.
Yair Davidiy adds:
Unfortunately I have learnt neither Welsh nor Irish though one day I may do so.
Apart from comparing a few words here and there our own comments on these matters must be limited.
See Also:
Hebrew Linguistic Traits in Welsh
http://britam.org/language.html
Origin of the Name "Wales". A New Appreciation
http://www.britam.org/WalesName.html
Don and Bile. The Welsh Version of their Origins
http://britam.org/traditions4.html