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by gorkaerana 1318 days ago
> I'm honestly more surprised that they're saying they've only got the first word figured out.

They have figured out the rest of the words, as per the last image in the announcement tweet [1]. It's just that they don't make sense in modern Basque (source being me being a native Basque speaker).

[1]: https://twitter.com/aranzadi/status/1592129224806404097?s=20...
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rendall 1318 days ago
Oh, I see! So upstream quote meant they understood the first word, and transliterated the rest without understanding. Got it. Excellent, thank you.
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msrenee 1318 days ago
That makes more sense than them not being able to parse out the sounds of subsequent letters after working out the first word.

There's been so much work done on reconstructing what the proto-Indo-European roots of modern words might have been. I'd imagine they've had less luck with Basque since it doesn't have the wealth of contemporary languages to compare it to.

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