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I recently talked to a friend who is doing Masters research in linguistics and who specializes on centum Indo-European languages said that one of the unique aspects of the Germanic language group is that 30-40% of proto-Germanic vocabulary is of non-Indo-European origin. She said that this converges with the theory that before the Indo-Europeanization of northern Europe and Scandinavia that the invading Aryans assimilated the proto-Europeans of northern Europe and adopted a lot of the words and customs of these native people. This also coincides with the fact that many Scandinavian and northern European men have Y-haplotype I-M-170 (a descendant of IJ), while males of Indo-European invaders typically have Y-haplotype R1a (found in large concentrations in Eastern Europe and northern India). This puts to rest that the Germanic people are the "purest" Aryans as advocated by Hitler and the Nazis. Research seems to indicate that modern-day Germanics are a solid mix between Indo-European invaders and native proto-Europeans.
What do you all think of this theory?
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