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70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Basque Language Is a Language Isolated

In 2001 a year ago Latin did exist and the precursors to what we call the Latin alphabet also existed probably even for Latin. It's a little bit maybe unclear who did it first and how it spread but like they could very well be related to Latin. What's important here is that formerly we thought that the Basque borrowed their script from Latin and this shows that they probably didn't touch the Latin characters at all They were probably using an old italic script. So it's thought that this hand if we can do more work on it figure out what the other characters are it may help us to trace the origins of the Basque language. That's really cool. Can I finish

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