--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski, replying to
Gerry's "One of the most likely hypotheses argues that the Basque
language developed "in situ", in the land of the primitive
Basques", wrote "The ancestors of the Basque-speakers must have
lived in Iberia for a long time. No-one questions that".
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Actually, the early evidence for Basque or a Basque-like language
appears to be on the north rather than the south side of the
Pyrenees.
http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/ib8b_en.htm
seems to be a reliable statement on the "Aquitanian Language." Of
course this doesn't means Proto-Basques weren't in Iberia also.
Dan