[SunkenCiv]

The stone-age Basque language remains mystery to scientists
Deutsche Presse-Agentur | 01 June 2006 | Sinikka Tarvainen
Posted on 06/01/2006 11:51:18 PM PDT by Marius3188
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1642165/posts

The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu
High Speed Plus | 1996 | Edo Nyland
Posted on 06/25/2004 3:44:16 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160355/posts

[muawiyah]

The issue here was "written basque", not the language itself. It was known by the Celtic invaders of Northern Spain 2700 years ago that the then indigenous locals spoke something different.

Later on when the same Celtic overlords invaded Ireland and took numerous Basque people with them (so many that they swamped the local genome) they made sure the Basque language was totally suppressed and that everyone spoke what became Irish.