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 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
The toponymic (place-name) links are tenuous and can be explained by other linguistic families. Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica
He even suggests these colonizers significantly impacted the development of Germanic languages , influencing everything from the invention of runes to the origins of deities like the Vanir . Academic Reception Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica