Re: Basque and monks was Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

From: "Peter Clark" <peter-clark@...>

>         Au contraire. All the world's langauges (with the possible
exception of
> Chinese) descend from Basque (formerly known as Saharan). And Benedictine
> monks were responsible for creating all the languages of Western Europe
(with
> the natural exception of Basque) by manipulating Basque words into
> unrecognizable shapes. So unrecognizable, in fact, that only one man has
ever
> managed to decode it. Those tricky, tricky monks!
>         http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/linguist.htm
>         :Peter
There's someone who claims all languages came from Latvian, or at least
Latvian is closest to Proto-World. My opinion on Kartvelian: it's not
Nostratic, but it's probably closest to Nostratic, though it lost most of
the "laryngeals" preserved in Afro-Asiatic.

I'm wondering if Proto-World wasn't something more like Northwest
Caucasian....