[r9etb]

few traces of their puzzling, non-Indo-European language survive

Related to the Basques?

[Junior]

More likely the Minoans.

[Virginia-American]

few traces of their puzzling, non-Indo-European language survive

Related to the Basques?

Greenberg includes Etruscan in Eurasiatic, although not enthusiastically (there really isn't much data)

See Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family: vol. I Grammar and Vol II Lexicon by Joseph Greenberg (the greatest linguist of the 20th century)

Soviet linguists have concluded that Basque is part of a Dene-Sino-Caucasic phylum that includes na-Dine (Athabaskan (icl Navaho and Apache), Sino-tibeten, Yeniesian (Kott and Kett), Burushaski, Basque, and the non-Kartvelian Caucasian tongues.

Discussed in On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy by Merritt Ruhlen.

[Virginia-American]

few traces of their puzzling, non-Indo-European language survive

Related to the Basques?

Greenberg includes Etruscan in Eurasiatic, although not enthusiastically (there really isn't much data)

See Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family: vol. I Grammar and Vol II Lexicon by Joseph Greenberg (the greatest linguist of the 20th century)

Soviet linguists have concluded that Basque is part of a Dene-Sino-Caucasic phylum that includes na-Dine (Athabaskan (icl Navaho and Apache), Sino-tibeten, Yeniesian (Kott and Kett), Burushaski, Basque, and the non-Kartvelian Caucasian tongues.

Discussed in On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy by Merritt Ruhlen.