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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.

This "substrate" influenced the vocabulary and structure of the languages that eventually replaced them. Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica

The toponymic (place-name) links are tenuous and can be explained by other linguistic families. Vennemann argues that after the last Ice Age,

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