10 Interesting Facts about Basque

2. In fact, Basque is a language isolate

What makes Basque even more fascinating is that it’s a language isolate. That means that it’s not related to any other living language and its origin is a mystery. While French and Spanish, the two major languages that surround the area where Basque is mostly spoken, can trace their ancestry back to Latin, the Basque language itself has no such clear heredity.