I've never taken linguistics but I love learning about them

Basque is a language is spoken in Northwest Spain and Southwest France which has no known connections to other languages. It's nothing at all like Spanish and other Romance languages and it's speculated that it dates from the Stone Age before Indo-Europeans arrived to Europe Others say it's related to Caucasian languages, an African language called Dogon, Ainu (a language of a Japanese minority tribe), etc.

Read about it here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language

I've also heard about people saying Basques are the descendants of Neanderthals or whatever which I find kind of stupid personally, the language is not that ancient. (Also, Basques look like regular Europeans but anyway)

Thoughts? Where does the elusive Basque language come from?

It's a pre indo- European language that fortunately survived for all these years.

Who knows but it is interesting how ancient the language is, and it's not surprising I guess that it could thrive for all that time in Iberia. Just looking at the Romance languages, it's amazing how many actually exist.

From el país vasco duh!

I heard about it for the first time recently and it's amazing learning it's history. I'm super interested in linguistics and their origins too.

Aliens

From the same place as the other elusive language isolate: Korea.