A key to understand the VMS

[ReneZ]

On the subject of unknown languages... I spent a couple of years looking into extinct languages (I was surprised there were so many and, as an aside, also found out there's a small region in India where more than 100 different languages/dialects are spoken).

A very interesting topic indeed.

One may discover, for example, that there is also a list of 'endangered languages', or even this:

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Closer to home, also Italy has a good collection of different languages, and it won't have been less in the middle ages.

As regards Basque, I remember reading that, after the Romans conquered Spain (ahem: Iberia), large numbers of Iberian languages were extinct. These would not have been Indo-European, I guess, and I suppose Basque could be a remnant of this.