Sounds like you don't know nuthin' bout this topic Rudder!;)Now one critical question that this discussion[+article+book] raises is what race are the basques? Not only are they linguistically isolated, they're genetically isolated as well. Just because they "look white" doesn't mean that they are genetically 100% caucasoid and have caucasoid lineage.Their contemporary appearance has a lot to do with 1000s of years of intermarriage with white europeans. The same is true for the hungarians who were originally a mongoloid people[phenotypically] but now pretty much look "white" too.Genetics seems to suggest that Basques, Hunza's and Ainu's[possibly Jomons as well] are surviving fragments of an unknown human race/ethnic division which migrated to those regions before any one else did.Analagous to the australoid peoples of S Asia and australia.
That was the topic of my post.
I read some years ago that 11,000 years ago around Lake Baikal arose a tribe that spread West into Europe, South into India, and East also, there becoming the Ainu of Japan. This was done through linguist studies at the rate languages change over time. Linguist studies are not cited in the article on “The Relationship Between The Basque and Ainu”. Looking at photos of the Ainu (1904)seen in another article on the Ainu, one can see the features of the members of that tribe are of a race that is ancient and exists globally, not so much anymore, but in isolated pockets in Europe also. Basques have some characteristics physically that are shared by the Ainu.