10 Interesting Facts about Basque

1. It’s one of the few non-Indo-European languages in Europe

Most languages in Europe come from the same language family – Indo-European. From that “tree” different branches have spread out to create the Germanic languages like English, German, and Dutch, and Romance languages, such as Italian and Romanian. Along with Basque, only a handful of languages spoken in Europe are outside of this family tree, however. These include, for example, Maltese, Hungarian, Estonian, and Finnish.