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by adiskide on March 24th, 2007

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Is there any evidence either linguistic, or genitic to support the belief that the basque people may be decended from europes oldest modern humans?

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  • by hijklmno on March 24th, 2007

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    Basque is a language isolate - it is not known to be related to any other language (though people have tried their hardest to make it fit). It was probably in Europe before the Indo-European languages arrived.

    However, that doesn't mean that the language group Basque belonged to (all other variants now presumably extinct) was the first in Europe. An older version of it was known in Roman times. But as far as I'm aware, nothing is known about the languages of the neolithic peoples of Europe.

    Therefore, there is no evidence to link the Basque people to these earlier people.

    Very interesting question, incidentally.

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    • Sure is an interesting question--and a very informative answer. Thank you! +2

      jade310

      by jade310 on August 15th, 2009

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