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Basque is related to no other language on Earth

Surrounded by Romance languages, descended from none of them.

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Basque is a language isolate spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France, with no demonstrated relationship to Indo-European or any other family. It is generally thought to predate the arrival of Indo-European languages in Europe, making it a survivor of a linguistic landscape otherwise erased.

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