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An interesting discovery was made in January 2022, but only reported today, stating that the earliest inscription in Basque has been dated to the first century B.C., and speculates on potential connections to the Iberian language. [1][2]Culloty82 (talk) 20:13, 14 November 2022 (UTC) Culloty82 (talk) 20:13, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Hm yes, it's an important find but I think, given we can't read most of it and only have a single word that admittedly looks a lot like a Basque word, it's a bit premature to call this a Basque text. The state we're at, for all we know it may be a Basque loanword in Iberian (think of how the word benedictus has made it into languages like Irish in the form of beannacht in the wake of Christianity. Akerbeltz (talk) 22:46, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
