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How interesting that Japonic, Koreanic and Uralic just have… themselves. I couldn’t find that famously impenetrable language Basque on the chart, but I guess I haven’t looked hard enough – yet.
Basque is geographically surrounded by Romance languages but is a language isolate unrelated to them, and indeed, to any other language in the world. It is the last remaining descendant of one of the pre-Indo-European languages of Prehistoric Europe. Its also called Euskara.
It really is an outlier isn’t it? Nobody seems able to unwrap its past. Thanks.