Save an extinct ethnic group
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About the Neanderthals, or with the current usage, Neandertals. I suspect that Haldane's Rule is not likely to be applicable given the short time, less than a million years since the split and the probable genetic leakage between groups. Whether they are considered the same species or not depends on whether you are a lumper or a splitter
Actually there had been attempts by Esperanto enthusiasts to transform Neutral Moresnet into a Esparento speaking state. This would have lead to the formation of an ethnolinguistic group in such a Micro statelet for sure.
I think that "continental Celtic" is being used here as a linguistic term, distinct from the Brythonic group including Welsh and Breton and Cornish and from the Goidelic group of the different Gaelics.
It would be intresting to see a non-Romance speaking Italic people survive too.
Always good to find another Khazarophile on here
(though I have no real personal reasons, was just turned on to their history by a community college professor of mine a LONG time ago, and been intrigued ever since....)
There was a decent Greek-speaking minority in the south of Italy right into the Middle Ages. There's still pockets of established Greek-speakers in Italy to this day.
Greeks in Italy - Wikipedia
EDIT - on further reflection, it would probably require a significant change in regards to Rome. The latinisation of Italy is (IMO) nigh exclusively down to the massive power Rome had over the peninsula.
Either Rome has to be much weaker, possibly forming a confederation over Italy instead of a hegemony, or some other city state would need to become dominant.
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True, but the Basque were the 1st I thought of, who really have no ethnic "kinsmen" anywhere outside of western Europe...
If you include the North Caucasus Slope as part of "Europe", the number increases dramatically....
the Taino? the byzantines never lost control of Africa, making islam away from Syria and Egypt, as a consequence north africa stays christian and the visigothic kingdom survives... but it balkanizes like the East Francia (Germany) and Italy, with small kingdoms not power enough to colonize overseas. As the time passes, they develop their own societies with some contacts with europeans but enough to not make them completely extinct.
IIRC the medieval Cumans split into a few different ethnic groups post-Mongol era but the majority of other Cumans/Kipchaks identified as Tatar while the ones in Hungary still called themselves Cumans (and in addition were Christian).
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Basque, and the Etruscans, Iberians, Rhaeteans, Minoans, and a lot many others. Basque is just one of them.Wouldn't that be the Basque?