The bronze hand-shaped amulet is thought to have been a good-luck charm. It was found in 2021 amid the ruins of a 2,100-year-old building at Irulegi in Spain's Navarre region.Image credit: Aiestaran et al.; Antiquity Publications Ltd
Posted on 02/22/2024 9:34:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The bronze hand-shaped amulet is thought to have been a good-luck charm. It was found in 2021 amid the ruins of a 2,100-year-old building at Irulegi in Spain's Navarre region.Image credit: Aiestaran et al.; Antiquity Publications Ltd
I’m Basque, as this is very cool.
“Basque is the last surviving Paleo-European language spoken indigenously in Europe, predating the Indo-European languages of the Bronze Age...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language
Thanks, but it’s an unsubstantiated claim.
I don’t know, man. It’s all Greek to me.
:^)
Tom Hanks ... Da Vinci Code
all I got .....
RE: I’m Basque,
On the Les Crane Show in 1965 (late night show like Tonight) the singer Caterina Valente said she was told Basque is the most difficult language in the world to learn.
I saw somewhere recently it wasn’t.
Do you know?
I don’t know if it’s the worst, but I find the grammar very difficult. I am learning Basque, I wasn’t brought up with the language, just Spanish.
Thanks. Never heard the facts from someone who knows.
That depends upon the native language of the learner. It's all relative!
For someone already fluent in, say, Mandarin Chinese, learning Sichuanese would be relatively easy.
By the same token, someone with a good foundation in Aquitanian would probably find learning Modern Basque a "piece of cake."
Regards,
Your memory is playing tricks on you: That wasn't on the "Les Crane Show."
It was on the "Danny Kaye Show," and it was in 1966 (on Dec. 28, to be exact).
I watched only a few minutes of the show (my parents were switching back and forth between "Danny Kaye" and an episode of "I Spy"), so didn't catch that particular remark.
Regards,
Ah, yes: The Basques have learned much at the feet of their Spanish masters!
< ducks! >
Regards,
The trick there, of course, is that Aquitanian no longer exists!
The Basque POV is that it was the other way around!
I'll see myself out.
Thanks, SunkenCiv!
Did you post an article years ago that speculated about similarities between the Basque language and the language of the Ainu people of Northern Japan?
Doesn’t ring a bell, but the bell doesn’t work all that well nowadays.
[rustling papers sound]
Ah, here it is, blam posted it in 2004:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1160355/posts
keyword:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/basque/index
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