Deep Genetic and Linguistic history of the Basques in Europe

[BillT]

The Basque language is unrelated to other languages.
Fossil genomics and comparisons with genomes of other populations show the Basque are probably derived from some of the first farmers more than 5000 years ago, not from pre-existing hunter-gatherers.

http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/09/unusual-relic-language-comes-small-group-farmers-isolated-thousands-years

[Mugwump]

The Basque language is unrelated to other languages.
Fossil genomics and comparisons with genomes of other populations show the Basque are probably derived from some of the first farmers more than 5000 years ago, not from pre-existing hunter-gatherers.

http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/09/unusual-relic-language-comes-small-group-farmers-isolated-thousands-years

A nice read..........thanks. The part in the comment/discussion section about the French language combining after WWII was enlightening also....