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| Vasconic | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | France, Spain |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-5 | euq |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | (not evaluated) |
| Notes | † denotes an extinct language |
The Vasconic languages (from Latin vasco 'Basque'), also called "Basque-Aquitanian",[1][2] are a putative language family that includes Basque and the extinct Aquitanian language. The extinct Iberian language is sometimes tentatively included, although this remains controversial.
The consensus among scholars is that Aquitanian was a Paleo-European language genetically related to Basque, though there is debate over the exact nature of their relationship. Some linguists, like R. L. Trask, argue that it was a near-direct ancestor of Basque, while others, including Lyle Campbell, suggest that it may have been a close relative of Basque rather than its direct ancestor.[3]
- ^ Gorrochategui 1995, p. 57.
- ^ Hualde 2021, pp. 28, 31–32.
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- Trask 1997, p. 411: "probably all Basque scholars now accept that Basque descended more or less directly from Aquitanian"
- Campbell 2010, p. 18: "Although these attestations are sufficiently detailed to confirm that modern Basque and Aquitanian are related, they also show sufficient differences from Basque to suggest the possibility not of a direct ancestor, but as a relative, that possibly Aquitanian and Basque are sister languages representing two branches of the original proto-language."
- Hualde 2021, p. 21: "The Aquitanian(-Vasconic) names show an evident relation to Basque, but what the exact nature of this relation is remains uncertain. The language of the Aquitanian names may be either the direct ancestor of [Proto-Basque] or a close relative."
- Gorrochategui 2022, p. 106: "Research in the second half of the twentieth century (Michelena 1954; Caro Baroja 1954; Gorrochategui 1984) has demonstrated convincingly that Aquitanian was genetically related to the Basque language, in a much stronger and clearer way than with any other language"