# Basque & Sumerian dopers: How can there be a true language isolate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 22, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basque-sumerian-dopers-how-can-there-be-a-true-language-isolate/530000 "2010-02-22T18:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basque-sumerian-dopers-how-can-there-be-a-true-language-isolate/530000/41 "2010-03-01T02:02:56Z")
Well, according to the “Fourth Kind” pseudo-documentary movie, Sumerian was an extraterrestrial language, which the little green men still speak today whilst abducting terrified humans :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basque-sumerian-dopers-how-can-there-be-a-true-language-isolate/530000/42 "2010-03-01T07:37:04Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > Well, according to the “Fourth Kind” pseudo-documentary movie, > > Sumerian was an extraterrestrial language, which the little green men still speak today whilst abducting terrified humans :rolleyes: Classic nonsense, ignoring the fact [it is just Basque, deliberately manipulated to hide the awful truth:](http://web.archive.org/web/20060809223345/www.islandnet.com/~nyland/Sumer.htm) [All languages are just mutilated Basque!](http://web.archive.org/web/20061022140746/www.islandnet.com/~nyland/linguist.htm) [Even more evidence of this unsuspected duplicity is right here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=524909) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basque-sumerian-dopers-how-can-there-be-a-true-language-isolate/530000.md?page=2)