 Vennemann held the position that they spoke an Atlantic language.That belief was also held by Heinrich Zimmer (1898) but is not generally accepted.Hayim Y. Sheynin, adjunct professor of Jewish Literature at Gratz College, critically reviewed the work "Europa Vasconica – Europa Semitica" (2003) in which Vennemann laid out his arguments for the existence of a Semitic (or "Semitidic") superstratum in the Germanic languages.