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[Loud Whispers]

I find the idea that Basque would be particularly close to the FU culture to be completely ludicrous, though. The proto-culture basically never left the northern areas of Eurasia. That one splinter of it would somehow end up in the Pyrineans without a massive migration through (the populated) Europe is a huge, huge stretch.

How come there's a Georgia in the Caucasus and a Georgia in North America? Checkmate atheists


But in all seriousness a good example would be Turks in Anatolia and Turkic cultures in central asia disconnected from one another. Migrations that go through other culture groups is possible

[ChairmanPoo]

My personal guess is that Basque is related to ancient Iberian... there's not enough written of the latter to fully establish the similarity. But the numbers *are* practically the same. And the words I've seen seem kind of reminiscent. Not 100%, but rather vaguely reminiscent.

[Teneb]

How come there's a Georgia in the Caucasus and a Georgia in North America? Checkmate atheists

Let's not forget the third Georgia in the south Atlantic.

[scriver]

I find the idea that Basque would be particularly close to the FU culture to be completely ludicrous, though. The proto-culture basically never left the northern areas of Eurasia. That one splinter of it would somehow end up in the Pyrineans without a massive migration through (the populated) Europe is a huge, huge stretch.

How come there's a Georgia in the Caucasus and a Georgia in North America? Checkmate atheists


But in all seriousness a good example would be Turks in Anatolia and Turkic cultures in central asia disconnected from one another. Migrations that go through other culture groups is possible

While it's completely true that it's possible, the Turks aren't exactly cut of from the other Turkic peoples in the same way that the hypothetical FU-Basque would be cut off from the FU kern. The Turks are cut off from the Turkicore more in the way the Germanics on the Scandinavian peninsula is cut off from the Germanians in central Europe. A better example would have been the already FU Hungarians

But I retake my words of it being completely ludicrous. It's possible. It would just be very unlikely.

My personal guess is that Basque is related to ancient Iberian... there's not enough written of the latter to fully establish the similarity. But the numbers *are* practically the same. And the words I've seen seem kind of reminiscent. Not 100%, but rather vaguely reminiscent.

Do you mean the still-alive-by-Roman-times Iberians? I've always assumed they were IE, but now I realise I don't base that on anything but the assumption itself.

How come there's a Georgia in the Caucasus and a Georgia in North America? Checkmate atheists

Let's not forget the third Georgia in the south Atlantic.

Oh and yo mama so fat she counts as a fourth Georgia

[Iduno]

I find the idea that Basque would be particularly close to the FU culture to be completely ludicrous, though. The proto-culture basically never left the northern areas of Eurasia. That one splinter of it would somehow end up in the Pyrineans without a massive migration through (the populated) Europe is a huge, huge stretch.

How come there's a Georgia in the Caucasus and a Georgia in North America? Checkmate atheists

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[Culise]

How come there's a Georgia in the Caucasus and a Georgia in North America? Checkmate atheists

Let's not forget the third Georgia in the south Atlantic.

Also a fourth, New Georgia in the Solomons. 

Assuming that language did not develop fully separately and independently in multiple separate places, it's technically not wrong to say that Vasconic and Uralic languages share a common ancestor, but it does not strike me as a particularly helpful assertion given how far back any such common ancestor would likely be.  Otherwise, the languages primarily hold in common that both are different pre-Indo-European languages, which is essentially a catch-all for many different language families from Europe and Asia that predate and are not ancestors of Indo-European.  Basque is commonly held to be descended from one of the various pre-Indo European languages, as are the surviving members of the Uralic and Dravidian language groups, but it does not follow from their lack of Indo-European ancestry that they are related to each other.

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/MarkOosterveen/status/1261681004030373888

Brits gonna Brit.

[Loud Whispers]

https://twitter.com/MarkOosterveen/status/1261681004030373888

Brits gonna Brit.

lol they changed the photo

[Loud Whispers]

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It doesn't matter what year this image applies to

[ChairmanPoo]

I honestly dont know how people in the British isles cope with the subpar plumbing

[Il Palazzo]

The mole men are not real people.

[TD1]

I... think that's needlessly racist.

[Kagus]

I... think that's needlessly racist.

What's the PC term for mole people again? I remember a few QAnons were discussing it...

Individuals of subterranean ascent?

[TD1]

Descent 

[Kagus]

Descent 

They're already underground, only way to go is up