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	Guanches
		Guanches (also: Guanchis or Guanchos) (native Guanchinet; Guan=person, Chinet=Teneriffe[?], man of Teneriffe, corrupted, according to Núñez de la Peña[?], by Spaniards into Guanchos), were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
		Strictly the Guanches were the primitive inhabitants of Teneriffe, where they seem to have preserved racial purity to the time of the Spanish conquest, but the name came to be applied to the indigenous populations of all the islands.
		Such remains as there are of their language, a few expressions and the proper names of ancient chieftains still borne by certain families, connect it with the Berber dialects.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Guanches.html (979 words)

	UFO Area The Mysterious origin of the Guanches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Guanches are the mysterious natives of the Canary Islands.
		In an article parallel to this one we present the philological comparison of the Guanche language to Dravida, the sacred, pristine language of the Dravidian populations of India.
		It was thus that Mauritania was settled by the Berbers, Lebanon by the Phoenicians, Crete by the Minoans, Italy by the Etruscans, the British Islands and Brittany by the Celts and, of course, the Canaries by the Guanches.
	www.ufoarea.com /aas_mysterious_origin_guanches.html (6298 words)

	What Became of the Guanches
		It is another typical example, full of symbolism, of the presence of Guanche roots in the present-day Canarian culture and society.
		It was probably a sickness against which the immunitary system of the Guanches was unprepared, for the illness didn't affect the Spaniards.
		Many Guanches refused to live in the towns and villages which were built all over the island and prefered to stay as free shepherds in the mountains following their traditional ways of life.
	www.ctspanish.com /communities/canary/guanche3.htm (1412 words)

	Guanche language derived from Dravida?
		Since the Guanches lived in almost perfect separation from Europe and Africa from very early epochs, their tongue provides a sort of "fossil" evidence for the very earliest form of the language spoken by the immigrating races that settled in Western Europe and northwestern Africa.
		We have made the remarkable discovery that the Guanche language is closely related to the Dravidian family of languages of south India, both in grammar and in phonetics and etymology.
		The explanation of this remarkable fact certainly results from the circumstance that both races were fairly well sheltered from alien contact and influence, the Dravidas down to the present and the Guanches down to the extinction of their culture, at the end of the 15th century.
	www.atlan.org /articles/guanche_dravida (3115 words)

	Supreme Court of Idaho
		Guanche testified that he was too busy to "take care of insurance," and that he thought representatives of Knievel and Snake River Canyon Enterprises would "take care" of him.
		I think the limits of Guanche's coverage should be established, not by his secret and unexpressed desires, but by the context in which the insurance was obtained.
		The majority quotes some language from the Corgatelli dissent in support of its assertion that an ambiguous insurance contract should be construed in accordance with the understandings of a reasonable person in the position of the insured.
	www.law.uh.edu /faculty/SChandler/Insurance/Materials/putzier.htm (3825 words)

	The Lost Colony of Guanche
		The frozen north pole cap of Guanche is held captive within a rough ring of snowy volcanoes, while the warm ocean at the equator is home to several chains of volcanic islands, and a pair of miniature protocontinents complete with gold and diamond bearing deep pipe structures.
		After seven hundred years the chalcolithic cultures of Guanche were engaged in a constant struggle one against the other, a situation which would have continued if a group of Maxoratan slaves had not been taken to the heartland of the Tamonante Tindaya, and the great sealord Guize took a slavewoman as a companion.
		Erbanie was one of the few people left on Guanche who still spoke the ancient Cygnese trade language, and when she was finally allowed to see the most holy of all Guize's mystery objects she realised that she alone could understand the whispered words it was speaking.
	www.orionsarm.com /worlds/Guanche.html (1167 words)

	Canarias: Información geográfica e histórica
		The Spanish conquerors destroyed a lot of Guanche characters, petrogliphs, monuments and remains, and because of this, it is difficult but not impossible to make progress in studies about the Guanche inhabitants of the islands.
		This language is now called GUANCHE and this denomination also corresponds and applies to the present inhabitants of the islands and those who fought against the first conquerors when they arrived.
		The name Guanche comes from a generalisation of the name of the inhabitants of the island of the island of Tenerife, which later applied to those from all the Archipelago.
	www.ctv.es /USERS/cnc/politica.htm (618 words)

	The Guanches
		According to the tales of the European conquerors, the Guanches were a "highly beautiful white race, tall, muscular, and with a great many blondes amongst their numbers" Their great height must be understood in relation to the average height of Europeans at that time.
		Other explanations might be found in the extraordinary difficulty of navigating the oceans surrounding the Canaries due to the strong currents flowing to the West and the trade winds blowing as strongly almost year round.
		Guanche was the name by which the natives of Tenerife called themselves.
	www.ctspanish.com /communities/canary/guanches.htm (1017 words)

	GUANCHE LANGUAGE DERIVED FROM DRAVIDA?
		The language is now extinct, but several words and expressions are known and extant.
		In other words, the Guanches are "the People of Cham" (Guan-che or Cham-che), an etym (etymology)not unrelated to that of "Dog" and to that of the Canaries.
		The Guanches were fierce combatants, and resisted the Spanish conquest down to the last man. Canarian wrestling is famous even today, and was originally used to train the Guanche warriors for battle.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_guanches_2.htm (3058 words)

	The Original Language of the Canary Islands \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The language has been passed on from father to son as it was essential to be able to communicate over long distances across the inaccessible valleys.
		Historically, from the earliest settlers on the Canaries, the Silbo language was the mobile phone of the period.
		Note that the use of whistled language, which is not a language as so much as a manner of speaking, is not the same thing as the Guanche language, which was the original language of the Canary Islands, and which is now extinct.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6857.htm (807 words)

	Guanche Ancestors - Rancel-Seral Family Tree
		Guanche was the name that Tenerife natives gave themselves: Guan Chenech meant "Man from Chenech", that is, Man from Tenerife.
		Nowadays, all historians agree on the point that the Guanches originated in a common line of ancestors with the ancient Berbers from Northern Africa.
		Anyway, the Guanche culture and, partially, the biologic heredity are still present in a certain mesure in today's Canarian society.
	users.skynet.be /sb275037/rancel/guanches-eng.html (789 words)

	History of Gran Canaria & Info about Gran Canaria & Canary Island
		The Guanches, had no recollection of the ways of the Sea; But at one time or other, they must have come across the Sea, if not to accept the theory, that they were descendants of survivors from the sunken Atlantis; a romantic but hardly scientific valid assertion.
		The Guanches embalmed their dead after the same method, which was used by the Berbers, and maybe goes way back to the Egypt’s.
		On the Gomera the Guanche men offered their wives to noble guests – but they kept an open eye on, which children was born as a result of these visits.
	www.canario.co.uk /historygc.htm (3896 words)

	Tenerife Guanches - Guanche language. From the Berber language to the Guanche tongue. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From the Berber language to the Guanche tongue.
		It originated from the Berber language, which is the tongue spoken by the Berber tribes in northern África.
		In the present day their language still is differentiated from the dental sound of the peninsula due to that guttural characteristic.
	www.tenerife-guanches.com /en/idioma.aspx (197 words)

	The Mazur-Guanche: Grail Bearers of Atlantis
		The European conquerors of the Islands stated that the Guanches were a "highly beautiful white race, tall, muscular, and with a great many blondes amongst their numbers".
		Once I read about the Guanches and saw photographs of their kings, I received from the akashic that the Guanche were remnants of the Mazur Grail tribe.
		Godon states tht the whippet (dog) was a “main devotional icon” of the Guanche, and sees a connection between the whippet of Canaria and the whippet of Egypt, who was part of the ancient Egyptian mystical tradition.
	www.spiritmythos.org /holy/mazur-guanche/mazur-guanche.htm (2742 words)

	Canary Islands - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Castilian Spanish is the official language of the Canary Islands.
		Up until the 16th century an Afro-Asiatic language called Guanche was the dominant language of the region, although this is now extinct.
		The indigenous population, the Guanche, a Berber people, eventually became extinct.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761557462__1/Canary_Islands.html (690 words)

	Guanche Menceyes on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		A line of bronze Guanche Menceyes (kings), rulers of the island’s original inhabitants, stand tall between the sea and the the vast Plaza de Candelaria in Candelaria, Tenerife (town in the northeastern part of the island and home of the archipelago’s patron saint), where tomorrow they will be holding a "Guinness Book of Records" attempt.
		Guanche is the Spanish bastardization of the native term Guanchinet, which means "man of Tenerife" (from Guan = person and Chinet = Tenerife).
		The original and the word mencey, which I think more properly translates to chief, are from the extinct Guanche language, considered by most scholars to be of North African, Berber origin.
	www.flickr.com /photos/tenerife/136409831 (276 words)

	Tenerife Guanches - Feel attracted to the striking archaeological legacies left behind by the fascinating Guanche ...
		The Guanches are the ancient inhabitants of the island of Tenerife before the Spanish conquest of the XV century.
		The drago, a tree and symbol of Tenerife, was sacred to the Guanches, which used it to manufacture medicine.
		Certain words of their language also remained, mostly used by the shepherds and in the names of places, including the word Tenerife, which was the name of a great Guanche king named Tinerfe.
	www.tenerife-guanches.com (286 words)

	the God-Kings of Ancient Egypt - Atlantis Rising
		The Guanche buried the mummified bodies of their dead in bricked-up caves in as inaccessible spots as possible, and they followed a Stone Age way of life (without even the use of the potters wheel) into the middle ages.
		It is known that the Guanche used an odd whistled language called silbo, perhaps to communicate across the valleys and volcanic hills of the multi-climated Canary Islands; their mixed Spanish descendants are said to use the language today.
		While the Guanche were known to have worshipped the god of the sun, and of higher thought, Men-cey, (note that the first Egyptian pharaohs called themselves Men-es) or the revelation of god through the sun, it is unknown what the other gods, if any, of their pantheons were.
	forums.atlantisrising.com /ubb/Forum2/HTML/000477.html (9467 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Endangered Language Initiative• Nearly Extinct Languages
		This is a list of more than 750 languages found designated by Ethnologue as already extinct or nearly extinct today.
		Of course, there are many more languages besides these in danger of extinction by the end of the century, many as yet undiscovered by Europeans.
		This list will give you an idea of where the majority of threatened languages are spoken, if not their exact number.
	www.yourdictionary.com /elr/nextinct.html (94 words)

	Tenerife Island \| Tour Tenerife with the Green Bearded Bard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the Guanche use of resins to mummify the dead we have another similarity in their culture to other pyramid builders like the Egyptians, for example.
		Wherever the Guanche and their culture were from originally, their language survives in many words in usage in modern Spanish and their genes live on in people living today in the Canaries.
		It is believed that the Guanche built the pyramids of Guimar and used them for celebrations and rituals, and Galindo (1632) said that the first inhabitants used the place for ceremonies, dance, songs and competitions.
	www.tenerifeisland.org /placestovisitontenerife.htm (1569 words)

	Who were the Guanches? - DiscussAnything.com -
		This skill in the Guanche shepherds was a source of constant amazement to the European settlers.
		The Guanches believed in the existence of a supreme god, whom they identified as Magec (the Sun), but whom they referred to in many different ways: Achaman (The Heavens), Achuhuran Achahucanac (Great and Sublime God), Achguayaxerax Achoron Achaman (the Sustainer of Heaven and Earth).
		Likewise, the Guanches also maintained cultic relations with a god of evil, Guayota (identified as the devil by the Christian conquistadors), which lived in Echeyde, the Teide, which means "the Ominous One".
	www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=40640 (2040 words)

	Tanausu - Wikipedia Mirror US (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		1493) was the Guanche ruler of Aceró, on the island of La Palma (known to the natives as Benahoare), whose defeat by the Castilians marked the final conquest of that island.
		The island of Tenerife, conquered in 1495, was the last of the Canary Islands to fall under European control.
		Aceró, whose name is said to mean "strong place" in Guanche, has been identified with the area now known as La Caldera de Taburiente, which indeed lends itself to a strong defense.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Tanausu (292 words)

	GRAN CANARIA NET - Forum: View topic - Guanche names
		Guanche name meaning: "Guan" is man, and "Guan Chenech" means a man from Chenech (Tenerife).
		The guanches were forced to be baptised and take "christian" names, they were intermarried with europeans and guanche language and guanche names were forbidden.
		But many of the old guanche names for places, towns, valleys, rocks, mountains etc are still in use today.
	www.grancanarianet.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=1428 (446 words)

	Whistling Languages
		As for older Canarian languages, Guanche seems to be the only language that has survived in any form.
		Of course, the author is using it to prove the existence of Atlantis somewhere in Southeast Asia.
		1984 'Lybic-Guanche language community as a foundation for ethnic and anthropological parallels between the native speakers', Materials of the Conference on Linguistic Reconstruction and the prehistory of Orient, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, pp.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jlawler/ask/whistle.html (390 words)

	Human rights in Canary Islands
		And in several occasions I have reminded some friends of mine of the fake use of that term, which cannot be invented as many others only to pretend a radical canarism.
		The future Canary State, once it is settled in the United Nations, should be officially named Guanche Republic of Kanaries, using the Berber -k instead of the actual -c from the Spanish and English Language.
		I have always believed that the study of the Guanche Language and the Berber Languages in general should be taken seriously and that research should be carried out on accurate and scientific basis.
	www.amazighworld.org /human_rights/canaryislands/index_show.php?Id=566 (496 words)

	COMPARING DRAVIDIAN WITH GUANCHE
		He stated that, “Guanche is the name of the language which was spoken by the native population of the Canary Islands until the Spaniards came and massacred a large number of the inhabitants around 1,500 A.D. Mr.
		That original language is not the same, of course, as the Basque spoken today, but a much earlier form of it, without the invented, formulaically enhanced VCV vocabulary added in.
		To this Neolithic group must also be added the large group of Dravidian languages spoken in India by some 160 million people, the Ainu language of Northern Japan with 17,000 speakers and Ancient Egyptian (extinct), including Coptic, which is still spoken as a liturgical language.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/bronze/guanche.htm (405 words)

	SONS OF FIRE
		In his paper on the genesis of the Guanche people in the Canary Islands, Arysio Nunes dos Santos, convinces me that the origin of the language of the Guanche peoples is Dravidian.
		The Guanche people share many racial characteristics of the Phoenicians, who were known to be present in India at different periods.
		The Dravidian language is from southern India - specifically the provence of Tamil Nadu at the tip of India's 'horn'.
	www.semjaaza.com /ur/sof_journeyeast.html (1657 words)

	THE SPANISH OF THE CANARY ISLANDS
		Guanche slaves were eventually deported from the Canary Islands and sent to Madeira, thus forming a vicious circle of sugar and slavery, which would be replicated a century later in the infamous sugar-slave-rum triangle encompassing Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean.
		As the Guanche population was diminishing--through deportations and European diseases--the newly arrived colonists turned to the importation of fl slaves from the Senegambia and from the nearby Barbary Coast (Lobo Cabrera 1982).
		By 1600 the Guanches had for all intents and purposes vanished from Canary life, although a few remote settlements continued to exist in isolation.
	www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/j/m/jml34/Canary.htm (7097 words)

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