1. Basque is a language isolate, unrelated to any other known living language

2. Although Páez may be related to the Barbacoan family, a conservative view considers Páez a language isolate pending further investigation

3. Basque language, language isolate, the only remnant of the languages spoken in southwestern Europe before the region was Romanized in the 2nd through 1st century bce

4. The most popular hypothesis suggests that Páez is a language isolate, and that any similarities to Guambiano (a Barbacoan language) or Macro-Chibchan languages are a result of language contact, and thus do not suggest that these languages belong to the same linguistic …