Basque Monks

/bask mʌŋks/
noun

1. According to infamous linguist Edo Nyland's rather ludicrous theories, these benedictines created the majority of all modern languages using abbreviated phrases in a hypothetical vasconic language he terms "Saharan."

Person 1: ...and guess what! Stalin isn't really derived from the Russian word for steel; it's really an abbreviation of the Basque phrase "astapotro alienatu inola."
Person 2: Those crazy Basque Monks...