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    How much do you know about Linguistics: Curiosities and Origin of Words?

    Which language, spoken by about 8,000 people in northern Spain (Navarra), is considered a 'linguistic isolate', that is, not genetically related to any other known language in the world?

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    The Catalan
    BasqueCorrect
    The Galician
    The Breton

    Basque (or Basque) is the last survivor of the languages that were spoken in Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages. Its origin remains a mystery to linguists, and its grammatical structure and vocabulary are not related to any other living language, making it a true linguistic fossil.