Post AXqeaoxQlmfKPyrd7w by john@sauropods.win
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 (DIR) Post #AXqc9hUmCpqhY0OxDk by john@sauropods.win
       2023-07-19T09:14:26Z
       
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       Just tried to translate the text on a web page, it failed to correctly identify the source language, so I had to take a guess. It looked a bit like Spanish or Portuguese, but also… Polish, and also not really like any of them.It’s Basque! Language isolates don’t look like other languages.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXqcWEPmUcvU13oBt2 by john@sauropods.win
       2023-07-19T09:18:31Z
       
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       It’s this, a Basque language Wikipedia tooter talking about bio-analog flying machines: https://mastodon.eus/@euwikipedia/110739928890346387
       
 (DIR) Post #AXqeaoxQlmfKPyrd7w by john@sauropods.win
       2023-07-19T09:41:38Z
       
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       @Amarna I think I’m wise now: dhow many languages have romance-language elements, but otherwise seem unlike anything else?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXqpPjWliWY1t5JCBE by danielgibert@mastodon.online
       2023-07-19T11:43:01Z
       
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       @john For your own amusement you have this video about the Basque. It is very interesting. As a graphic designer working mostly for the Basque Health System, my work is dealing a lot with bilingual Spanish-Basque design and documents, something changelling for two languages that has almost nothing in common on structure and grammar.https://youtu.be/S1l9oDiSiEQ
       
 (DIR) Post #AXr9eHRAR8lqC4u1IW by justafrog@mstdn.social
       2023-07-19T15:29:41Z
       
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       @john @Amarna How much do you want to understand diagrams like this and how specific do you want to define your question?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IndoEuropeanTree.svg