Re: Fw: Re: [tied] Lusitanians,made a mistake

At 2:33:58 PM on Sunday, March 2, 2003, Michael J Smith
wrote:

> Hi Alex, my understanding was that,

> 3. That the languages of the ancient Iberians and modern
> Basques, though unrelated to one another, are seen by some
> as having close affinities with the Kartvellian Caucasian
> languages

Eh? If in fact both were related to Karvelian, they'd be
related to each other. To the best of my knowledge no
attempt to relate Basque to Karvelian (or anything else
except Aquitanian) has withstood serious scrutiny.

Brian