Which European language is more strange and isolated?

[Cristiano viejo]

For isolated I dont mean that language does not have an European branch (obviously all of them do it) but I mean it is hard, difficult and rare to your eyes and alien for you. I see them very different than the rest.

Grico


Hungarian


Polacko (lol, it is weird as fuck)


Finnish

[michal3141]

Polacko isn't isolated though sińce half of Europe is Slavic

[Cristiano viejo]

Polacko isn't isolated though sińce half of Europe is Slavic

But it is a language that has nothing to do with other (I think, maybe I am wrong but it is extremely particular IMO). Which other Euro language is similar?

[Ouistreham]

It's weird you didn't mention Basque, which is by far the most outlandish and isolated language in Europe (it's the only one testimony of pre-IE Europe, its grammar seems to originate from another planet, it's impossibly difficult to learn, and it's not related to any other language on Earth).

Finnish is not that isolated: it's related to Esthonian, to Sami dialects of Northern Scandinavia as well as to tribal tongues of Northern Siberia.

Furthermore it's also akin to Hungarian (though there isn't any mutual intelligibility). Hungarian itself, despite of its non-IE vocabulary, has been influenced by European languages that much that its grammatical features make it a legit member of Standard Average European, the Sprachbund centered around French, German and Dutch.

More about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European

[Cristiano viejo]

It's weird you didn't mention Basque, which is by far the most outlandish and isolated language in Europe (it's the only one testimony of pre-IE Europe, its grammar seems to originate from another planet, it's impossibly difficult to learn, and it's not related to any other language on Earth).

Not for me, that is the reason.

[RenaRyuguu]

All three Hungarian, Finnish and Polacko

[Cumansky]

Hungarian and Finnish

[KingOf]

Welsh could also make the list

[Cumansky]

But really "strange" one is one with Turkish loanwords but is nice for angry rap with housemusic beat

[Ruggery]

Hungarian(by far), followed by Finnish, the Polish sounds like a westernized Russian version.