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Ideas on the Origin of the Germanic People |
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Written by David J. de Laubenfels
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
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Page 6 of 7 German OriginsThe fact that proto-Germanic is less than two-thirds based on Indo-European vocabulary leads to a suggested origin for the Germanic people not generally expected. The basis of the original Germanic population, like the Gauls and the Britons and other western Europeans, lies with the Atlantic Farmers. The Germans only became Indo-European speakers through adoption. Owen in 1960 did see German origins as an amalgam of Northern Megalithic (Funnel Beaker Culture) and invading Indo-Europeans (Corded Ware Culture) approximately four and a half millennia ago. What were Atlantic speakers then opted to speak the language of the invading forces even though the resulting vernacular carried a considerable load of their former vocabulary. The Germanic people subsequently became aggressive, particularly over the Celtic speaking people, and Germanic history is entangled with Celtic culture, even as France, Spain, and the British Isles, also with roots in the Atlantic culture, in a different way, were much involved with the Celts. The Romans later also had their input with all these originally Atlantic people. But, fundamentally, the Germanic people share roots in the Atlantic culture with their western neighbors and in this way differ from the peoples of eastern Europe. Early Germanic thus appears to contain the last best surviving remnant of the ancient Atlantic vocabulary.
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Germanic Origins 