All I know is some have webbed feet and some have six fingers
Basque People
Levi Butler
Gavin Carter
>>Unique y-haplogroup a
Pretty sure this is bullshit. Most Basques are a subclade of R1b called DF27 (my group), which they also share with Iberians generally.
The impression that I have is that they are not especially unique in Iberia. The jury is still out as to whether or not Vasconic and Aquitanian were language isolates or were related to other Paleoiberian languages in Eastern Iberia. I believe the consensus currently is that there is sufficient similarity between the two to at least reasonably speculate that they were related. If this is the case, then the only thing that makes Basques different is the fact that their language evaded Latinisation whereas the other Iberian languages didn't.
Genetically, my understanding is that the Basques are not atypical. Whether this is due to the fact that the Basques had an enormous role to play in the repopulation and re-Christrianisation efforts during the Reconquista or because they were always just another Iberian population that only became unique as a result of their language surviving, I don't know. I suspect it's the latter since the Basques, in terms of Y-DNA, are not unique at all.
The real question should be why do the Basques have an Indo-European haplogroup with a pre-Indo-European language, in my opinion.
William Myers
how can I know more about this haplogroup thing, dear sir? where to study and things like that. what kind of books, etc
Jaxson Cook
There are a couple of published papers on DF27. A lot of them are behind paywalls, but here's a fairly comprehensive one published in 2015:
fsigeneticssup.com
One of the things you'll note is that, while the frequency of DF27 is highest in ethnic Basques, it's fairly diffused throughout Iberia and especially north-eastern Iberia. Bear in mind that this is a sub-clade of R1b, so definitely Indo-European.
I'd also add that the whole subject of who the Basques are is somewhat complicated by the vascongado thing. There are a lot of "Basques" who are not Basques, or at least a lot of Basques with non-Basque ancestry.
Austin Stewart
Basque = leftover survivors from Atlantis.
Ayden Walker
>not even one post in the thread
LOLE @ all these Jow ForumsTARDS amirite? :DDDD
Leafs...
Benjamin Edwards
Nathan Morris
you done joowd
Asher Reed
oh, I was talking about this haplogroup thing. I guess it's just general genetics, right? but thanks