> Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Most of the people from the British Isles over to Northern India speak a > variant of the original Indo-European language, with Sanskrit and > Lithuanian > likely being the closest languages surviving. Some interesting exceptions > (I > believe) are the Basque in Spain, Hungarians, The (Italian) Etruscans, and > > (as far as I remember) the Flemish. > Basque is unique, as you say. The main other European non-IE group is the Finno-Ugric, comprising Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and a handful of other minor languages (I'm half Estonian by ancestry). Flemish is firmly in the IE group, somewhere between German and Anglo-Saxon.
See http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2282/finno.html for more info on the Finno-Ugric languages. (No, I don't speak Estonian) Peter Trei
