I have to go

Isn't the Finnish language completely unique in the world?

@Ronin cya man

Have a good day

No.

That’s Basque.

Ah

Basque has no relational family.

Rly?

Yeah.

They can’t identify a proto-language.

As in genetically isolated?

Linguistically.

Or just linguistically

Ah ok

People have zero clue how it originated.

Wouldn't Basque have Indo-European origins?

Yes. But they can’t pinpoint what group it derives from.

It just has its own.

That's pretty cool

How many people speak Basque anyway?

It can't be that many

750,000 L1.

1.6 million passive speakers.

And what's the population of Spain?

47 million.

Or is this outside and inside Spain?

Well, Basque hugs northeast Spain and southwest France.

Hmm

That’s the beauty of Europeans.

You get mysteries like Basques.

To something rich like Germanic or Slavic languages.

True

Do people know how long ago Basque started to form?

They’ve been there since the Romans.

Oh so quite a while then lol

Yeah, then Franco came along and mandated they speak Spanish.

They seethed, and started a terrorist organization called ETA.

Lmao

Ironic

His methods of instituting national unity ended up pushing people apart