Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache

[Ronald Butters]

In Europe, Basque probably wins that prize, but Maltese would be a close second.

On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Eric Nielsen wrote:

>> I've always thought the Welsh is, to a unilingual, as far away from
>> English as it is possible to get and still use the Roman Alphabet.  It
>> is a miracle that it lives on the same island,

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