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That it is an ancient language of southwestern Europe and that it may be an ancient language of Eurasia's Caucasus is the history of the Basque language.

Specifically, the Basque language is known to have been spoken before, during and after ancient Greek and Roman contacts with the Iberian Peninsula. It still is spoken in the modern equivalents of that ancient homeland: northwestern Spain and southwestern France. But according to some scholars, the Basque language's origins may have been elsewhere. If such is the case, then the history of the Basque language also will take in the rugged mountainscapes of the Eurasian Caucasus, from which herders oasis-hopped southeastward into Asia (and possibly southwestward through Asia and into Europe before the time of the Indo-Europeans).

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