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Languages and Linguistics

GreenWave

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3. Very informative.

Reply to Igel (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:20 PM

Dec 2022

I believe the Romans' inability to traverse the difficult terrain helped keep Basque separate and looking like an isolated language in modern times, but perhaps their neighbors got assimilated and some/most of the linguistic connections lost. Please correct if blunders are made in my assumption.

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Thanks! Deep State Witch Nov 2022 #1

It's agglutinative. Igel Nov 2022 #2

Very informative. GreenWave Dec 2022 #3