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To: Kitskid who wrote (3718)	4/8/2001 3:50:39 PM
From: jbe	1 Recommendation Respond to of 4711

Interesting -- but the fact is that Basque is NOT a Indo-European language, as all Celtic dialects are. Period. (And of course, most Indo-European languages are mutually incomprehensible, especially those from different branches. All they have in common is a common ancestor.) jbe

To: Kitskid who wrote (3718)	4/8/2001 4:16:52 PM
From: jbe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

A P.S. on "language isolates." Basque is still the only one in Western Europe. Tartessian (like Etruscan) is extinct. So is Iberian, which in fact is considered to have been a Celtic language, so it would not have been an "isolate" in the first place. There are numerous non-Indo-European languages spoken in Russia's North Caucasus region. They are not "isolates", however. Most of the languages native to the region (Chechen, Circassian, etc.) belong to a unique language family, Ibero-Caucasian, to which Georgian also belongs. (Some Georgian linguists have tried to establish a link between Georgian and Basque.) The rest are Turkic languages.