Aryans

Thinking more about the Russian and Finnish of the previous post, I turned up my master plan of Aryan languages (indirectly mentioned at reference 1), which does not include Finnish, one of a small number of alien languages called Uralic from the Urals, rather than Aryan from I have no idea where. Don't recall anywhere called Aryana, Arya, Arianna or anything like that at all.

I was amused at the time by ancient Irish appearing at the top of the chart, while ancient Greek appeared at the bottom, outliers both.

With thanks to Chang and others at the University of California at Berkeley for the illustration, which is taken from their paper called 'Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis'. The things ones gets up to in retirement.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/i-met-lucky-people.html.