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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The north-west speaks Portuguese, the north-east speaks french, basques speak a language that's not even Indo-European. South is rednecks, and the rest is madrid + some desert. But, sure, the the nice infographic from someone else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's wild to me that Basque seems to have just evolved on its own, and that it's survived

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

No no, at some point a large part of Europe spoke Basque-like languages. Then Indo-European languages spread westward from Russia, and replaced all the rest.