[thaumasiotes]

> But, even middle-of-Europe Hungarian is related - somewhat - to Khanty and Mansi, and to a lesser extent to Finnish.

> I just think it's kind of incredible when a language exists in the center of Europe in 2021 that isn't quite related to anything.

But we just stipulated that Albanian is an Indo-European language. It's much more closely related to the general run of European languages than Magyar or Finnish is. The language isolate in Europe is Basque.

[rekoros]

Yeah, that's true - "not quite related to anything" is definitely wrong word choice here.

Perhaps a better way to say it is "it's so impossible to understand, I can't believe it's actually related to anything" :-)