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[โ€“] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's wild to me that Basque seems to have just evolved on its own, and that it's survived

No no, at some point a large part of Europe spoke Basque-like languages. Then Indo-European languages spread westward from Russia, and replaced all the rest.