First Etymological Dictionary of Basque as an Indo-European language?

[Rudel]

I don't think, the Bashk/Basque similarity means anything, since the word "basque" is of romance origin, we don't even call ourselves "Basques", or somehow similar. The word is Euskaldunak.

But it is likely the Vascones, usually thought to be a proto-Basque tribe, were named after their endonym.

[Immortal Technique]

Albania is turkey

[Proto-Shaman]

http://www.academia.edu/6285300/Evid..._FULL_VERSION_

[Proto-Shaman]

No, I've never heard anyone using it.

Btw, in euskara, there is no "v", "b" is used instead, so "avar" or "iver" aren't correctly generated words.

"Basque" comes from French basque (“Basque”) which in turn derives from Latin Vascones, a Roman era tribe in the Franco-Cantabrian region of southern Europe who were ancestors of the current Basque population.

[Comte Arnau]

I've read the intro and the excerpts and found it very interesting because he follows a method and seems not to commit the mistakes others have made with Basque.

However, I wouldn't be so enthusiastic yet. Has anyone looked at the full version? What does it say about numbers and kinship terms in the etymologies? Because I don't see how one can go from KWETWORES to LAUR or from PENKWE to BORST applying the phonetic changes he mentions in the paper.

[Proto-Shaman]

Is Basque an Indo-European language? Possibilities and limits of the
comparative method when applied to isolates. A review of G. Forni.

Blanca María Prósper
University of Salamanca

(https://www.academia.edu/2020451/Is_...ew_of_G._Forni)

[SardiniaAtlantis]

Very interesting, but I doubt it.... I'll be sure to read it though.

[Vesuvian Sky]

Why Basque Cannot be, Unfortunately, an
Indo-European Language

Joaquín Gorrochategui
Institute for Sciences of Antiquity, UPV-EHU
Joseba A. Lakarra
Dpt. of Linguistics and Basque Studies, UPV-EHU

In Journal of Indo-European Studies Vol. 41

The Basque language is, together with Ainu, Burushaski,
and some others, one of the best-known language isolates,
although there are over 115 languages in the world with
no known genetic relationship to any other language.
This quite typical situation, if not looked at through
Eurocentric eyes, has for two centuries been a continual
incentive for linguists and amateurs to try and remedy this
solitary situation.

more

[Proto-Shaman]

Why Basque Cannot be, Unfortunately, an
Indo-European Language

Joaquín Gorrochategui
Institute for Sciences of Antiquity, UPV-EHU
Joseba A. Lakarra
Dpt. of Linguistics and Basque Studies, UPV-EHU

In Journal of Indo-European Studies Vol. 41

The Basque language is, together with Ainu, Burushaski,
and some others, one of the best-known language isolates,
although there are over 115 languages in the world with
no known genetic relationship to any other language.
This quite typical situation, if not looked at through
Eurocentric eyes, has for two centuries been a continual
incentive for linguists and amateurs to try and remedy this
solitary situation.

more

This coincides with my personal research. Thank you. Indeed, the problem is eurocentrism of which many other linguistic fields resulted from, as well.

[Smaug]

You and your agenda of making Turks look and sound European...