On 24/10/05, Justin Cormack <justin(a)specialbusservice.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:44 +0100, Abigail Brady
wrote:
The Basque history guy is obviously rather
shockingly ignorant of
Basque history, if he hasn't heard of Acquitanian... And some of his
other comments appear to be POV pushing.
I suggest you read his book on Basque history before making comments
like this. Mark Kurlansky, A Basque History of the World. He doesnt say
he hasnt heard of the Aquitane language, just that he doesnt speak it,
and thinks it is unlikely to be related to Euskera. Read more carefully.
No, you read carefully. He says "I am not familiar with the Aquitaine
language but would be very surprised if it bore any relation to
Euskera, the Basque language." Such a language is recorded (it's now
extinct so of course he doesn't speak it), and does indeed appear to
bear some relation to Basque, although not much of it is attested.
If he was rejecting the proposed connection, that would be fair
enough, but instead he is (in admitted ignorance) rejecting any
possibility of a link. Anyone who knows anything about Acquitanian
knows about the possible link with Basque, he's just dismissing it out
of hand.
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Abi