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Language isolate is the language family in which Basque belongs.

Specifically, the term designates languages which have no known relatives in any of the known existing and extinct languages. Basque falls into that category because no connections have been established between it or any other language. Some researchers suggest affinities with ancient languages in Aquitanian France/Spain and Eurasia's Caucasus Mountains.

But Basque will continue to constitute its own language family until solid, sustained research proves otherwise.

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