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- Slavs - Wikipedia
Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1][2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe
- The surprising origins of the Irish - from Russia to the Middle East
By studying the 5,000-year-old remains of a female farmer buried near Belfast, archaeologists and geneticists now say they now know where the modern Irish people originally came from
- Irish and Russian are descended from the same language!
Irish is a language of the Celtic group, with related languages in other countries, like England It’s the official language of Ireland but also enjoys legal standing in other countries too So the Russian-speaking immigrants in Ireland caused quite a stir when they asserted that the Russian language was very similar to Irish
- Think you’re Irish? Your genes may say otherwise
Irish is the second-most prominent ancestry in the United States—behind German—with 34 5 million people identifying their heritage as at least partly Irish Gaffney said the Irish have been around long enough to evolve their own geographic genetic footprint that is different from their Russian ancestors So what does it mean to be Irish?
- Irish Russians - Wikipedia
Irish Russians are Russian nationals whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Ireland Migration occurred in the context of conflicts in Eastern Europe: the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18), Ingrian War and Thirty Years' War
- A Map of Lexical Distances Between Europes Languages
The map shows the language families that cover the continent: large, familiar ones like Germanic, Italic-Romance and Slavic; smaller ones like Celtic, Baltic and Uralic; outliers like Semitic and
- Old European culture: Celtic or Slavic? - Blogger
So we have absolute right to say that Irish is a Celtic language But we are seeing how huge the influence of the central European and South Baltic Germanic Slavic culture was in the British Isles, much earlier than the 9th century and the Vikings
- Dispatches From Turtle Island: The Irish-South Slavic Connection
There are a great many words in Irish Gaelic that seem to have a stronger etymological connection to Slavic (and in particular South Slavic) word than they do with other Indo-European languages (many other such links are noted at the same blog)
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