Celtic (Anglo-Saxon thread)

[Vaska]

Netty [Thomas?] says:

>I've heard somewhere that Basque is related with languages from the 
>Caucasus. 

Just a rumour :)  Pay it no heed.  As for its possible relation to Etruscan:
we'll just have to wait till someone manages to decode Etruscan.  13,000
inscriptions and no Rosetta stone to crack the code -- so, apart from a few
words [of the type king, sun, father, etc.], linguistically it's still terra
incognita.

>And - isn't it interesting that within the Indo-European 
>language family Greek appears to be mysteriously isolated? I mean, after 
>all, Ancient Greece is the cradle of modern European culture (not 
>civilization; those credits belong to the Romans).

Nothing to do with culture/civilization: Albanian is just as isolated.
Ditto for Armenian.

Vaska