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The northern borders and the remote northwest are where the Basque and Galician languages are respectively from in Spain.

Specifically, the Basque and Galician languages are more or less spoken nowadays where they were used anciently. Basque is a unique language whose linguistic story is unlike that of any other in the area or the world. It nevertheless may be related to the ancient Aquitanian language of southernmost France. It reflects some interaction with Romance languages in the acceptance of French, German and Latin loan words.

Unlike Basque, Galician does not stand alone as an isolate within language families. It is a member of the western Ibero branch of the Romance family of languages. It therefore links to the Latin, Portuguese and Spanish languages with which it interacted as its speakers carried out socio-economic activities, established socio-political institutions, and preserved their beautiful cultural and linguistic heritage. It also preserves ancient interactions with Celtic peoples in the use of Celtic loan words. Some scholars trace the Celtic presence in Ireland to the launching of ships from the Atlantic coasts along which Galician language speaker's civilization flourished anciently.

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The Basque language is a language isolate, meaning it is not related to any other language in the world. It is believed to be one of the oldest languages in Europe. The Galician language is derived from Latin, like Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan, and is spoken in the region of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

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