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Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire
(www.popularmechanics.com)
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It'd be cool if it was related to basque
This was exactly my first thought!
It isn't. The article said it's in the Indo-European family and related to a previously-known language in what is modern-day Turkey.
As Drusas said, it's an Indo-European language. From a rather distant branch of the family, called Anatolian:
The main language of the tablet (Hittite) is also Anatolian.