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Structural similarities like VSO word order may be typological coincidences rather than proof of direct contact.

Vennemann argues that after the last Ice Age, much of Western and Central Europe was inhabited by speakers of Vasconic languages , of which Basque is the only surviving member. Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica

He points to Old European hydronyms (river names) across the continent, which he reinterprets as having Basque-related origins rather than Indo-European ones. Structural similarities like VSO word order may be