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April 2

WHO is the oldest AEthnia: Abissinia[Aetiopya] YUDAEUS, EGYPTIAN, helens[ greek] TRAKS, dacians, DOICH , DUCH,?

WHO KNOW to help me , ANSWERIG the above questions? IF GREEK IS THE OLDEST why AMERIKAN MAPS- [ ATLASES] show: A] THE OLD name with THRAK ORIGINE[ NOT ROMAN that cam late after THROYA legend ] : "MARE NOSTRUM MIND in English : the "OUR SEAnot ROMAN NAME "and LATE TIME named- MEDY-THERRA-NA [ between EURO continent and AFRIKA THERRA] and ........ B] EGEEAN SEA, GREK NAME , MIND THE SEA OF GOD : GEEA [ geo].....THE GOD-ZEUS, femel GOD =ZEITSA THAT had BORN "THERRA= THE EARTH planet" BUT BEFORE THIS HISTORIK NAME WAS ......... "THRACIAN SEA" and "THE SALONIKY BAY"[ SARUNNA BAY] was named "THRACIAN BAY" . THOSE IMPORTANT HISTORIK EVENTS,COULD NOT BE - PASSED WITHOUT OF same IMPORTANTES LOOSES IN DETRIMENT OF THE TRAKS and DACIANS the same people with identical languages IN NORTH and SOUTH ISTRU RIVERS, THAT RISED CASTREES ...- IS-THRIA near MARE PONTIKUS MIND =IS 3 RIVERS NEAR DANUBIUS DHELTA, and late THROIA= THRIA- castrus- that rise ROMA [ SEE ENEYDA EPOPEYA] THAT was COMPLET exterminated by HELLENIS greek- after HUGE SEISM IN SANTA EKATERINA [ santa RINA] ISLE , CIKLADE arhipeleag IN THRACIAN MARe [ sea] now , E-GEEA NAME THAT , GOW TO MEDICAL SCIENCE gyneko-lo-GEEA [ GREEK lang GYNEIKA= WOMEN, GEEA= mind TO NASCERE TO DELIVERY THE LIFE. PETER BARDE, YLIRIK NAME MIND WHITE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.250.145.56 (talk) 02:32, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This being the Language Desk, I'm guessing you're asking which of those languages is the oldest. Is this what you meant ? StuRat (talk) 06:46, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can't be bothered to fight my way through text that you appear to be making deliberately difficult to read, but if you are complaining that English maps use English names, then your complaint is with the English language not with the mapmakers. The names we use in English for foreign places, especially in the Ancient world, are the names which have been inherited, often from classical sources. To use a different name would be perverse. --ColinFine (talk) 10:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I give up. who is the oldest? Richard Avery (talk) 15:34, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't it Tom Bombadil? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.197.66.138 (talk) 16:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I, too, find it almost impossible to understand the text below the heading, but there is a discernible question in the heading, namely which of the peoples listed occurred earliest. See Ethnogenesis for some of the issues and understand that ethnic identity is distinct from genetic inheritance. The ancestors of any given ethnic group go back to the beginnings of humanity, but the ethnic group doesn't become distinct until it is identified as such by its own members or others. Of the groups that you list, almost certainly the Egyptians were the first among which an ethnic identity emerged, roughly 5,000 years ago. At that time, none of the other groups you list existed as such. Marco polo (talk) 17:49, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's an obvious April fool's joke. That's why I deleted it. Duh! Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 19:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]