Europa Vasconica-europa | Semitica

He identifies structural similarities between Insular Celtic languages (like Irish and Welsh) and Semitic/Hamitic languages, such as Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) word order.

Vennemann argues that after the last Ice Age, much of Western and Central Europe was inhabited by speakers of Vasconic languages , of which Basque is the only surviving member. Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica

Vennemann posits that starting in the fifth millennium BCE, Atlantic/Semitidic seafaring colonizers (related to Semitic speakers) settled the coastal regions of Western and Northern Europe. Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica

He points to Old European hydronyms (river names) across the continent, which he reinterprets as having Basque-related origins rather than Indo-European ones. Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica