Well there was an awful lot of trading activity between the Arabic world and Wales and possibly the Irish by way southern France by passing Cornwall and Lands End. Sailing a longer way around from continental Europe. A completely different route than from the west coast of Europe, across the English channel to southern England or the east coast and even London up the Thames. These are the routes we are taught about in state schools about migration and invasion into England.

But

There was even slave Trading in the reverse direction. The Arabic nations used to sail into Wales from southern Europe and take Welsh slaves and even wives to marry and interbred. Maybe this has something to do with it.

If people are forced to live with one another then the new language gets absorbed into the new country of migration or invasion or female slave trading.

All human beings are capable of horrific acts nobody can claim to be better than any other nation; or even know who started it and when.

@ᑎᗩDᗩ Dᗩwood, there are many other similarities in structure between Irish and Arabic - some linguists even think there are too many for it to be a coincidence.

Nice fact, Arabic has the same structure as Irish.

Maybe something to do with this:

<em> Genetic researchers find evidence of mass migration to Ireland thousands of years ago</em>

"Evidence of massive migration to <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 81, 122);">Ireland</a> thousands of years ago has emerged from the sequencing of the first genomes from ancient Irish humans, carried out by geneticists from <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_organisation=Trinity+College+Dublin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 81, 122);">Trinity College Dublin</a> and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast.

Sequencing the genome of an early woman farmer, who lived near Belfast 5,200 years ago, showed her majority ancestry originated in the Middle East, where agriculture was invented."

<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/ancient-irish-had-middle-eastern-ancestry-study-reveals-1.2478780" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/ancient-irish-had-middle-eastern-ancestry-study-reveals-1.2478780</a>;