Languages You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

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Re: Languages You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

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Basque

Spoken along the border of France and Spain by over 600,000 people, Basque is puzzling to linguists because it is a language isolate (that is, it appears to have no living relatives) surrounded by Indo-European (IE) languages. Some conclude that it is the last surviving language of a nearly extinct language family that was native to the area before the Indo-European languages were transported there. The language’s writing system is Latin based

While traveling in Spain, particularly Catalonia (where Catalan dialect is used) I heard/met some Basque speaking locals. Not only is the language different, but the cuisine/food vastly differs from traditionally Spanish as well.