The Basques live in northern Spain. The similarity is so to be so striking that it can not be coincidence. The Ainu race was thought to be caucasian but is now assimilated with the mongoloid Japanese.
2006-12-03 16:11:05 · 4 answers · asked by Ken J 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
This is completely false. There is no connection between Basque and Ainu and any small linguistic similarities are due to coincidence. Any two languages of the world will show similarities due to chance. Ainu and Basque are no different in that regard. Whoever claims that the similarity is greater than coincidence knows nothing about the level of chance that can be proven to exist between any two languages.
2006-12-03 17:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Interesting concept. The Basque, of course were the first caucasians in Europe, some 15,000-plus years ago. It is probable, then, that since the Oriental languages are among the most recent on the planet, that after this "intermarriage" the Ainu language was somehow maintained. BTW the same holds true for the bloodstock of the Basque and the Welsh. But in the Welsh case when they intermarried with the Gaels (Gauls, Gaelic people, etc.) they did not keep their original language.
Another interesting case is Ural-Altaic, wherein you can see the similarities in the languages of Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Mongolian and Korean. In most of these languages the word apple is either something like elema, elena, alma, olima, etc. If you stretch your imagination you could see a "tribe" in pre-history migrating from Mongolia/Siberia to the West thru Eurasia - some going south (Turkey) some to the middle (Hungary), some to the north (Finland) and some with the luck of just going a little south from Mongolia and winding up in Korea.
2006-12-04 00:22:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many have unsuccessfully attempted to connect Basque to just about every language there is, but in the end there is no conclusive evidence.
I have studied Basque and a little bit of Ainu, and they don't appear to be related.
2006-12-04 00:24:04 · answer #3 · answered by ako lang 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-04 00:13:32 · answer #4 · answered by vanessa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋