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Basque (/ ˈ b æ s k, ˈ b ɑː s k /; euskara [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is the only surviving Paleo-European language spoken in Europe, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today.
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- proto-Basque Language
Proto-Basque (Basque: aitzineuskara; Spanish: protoeuskera,...
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Basque (/ b æ s k, b ɑː s k /; euskara [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is a...
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- Basque Alphabet
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Basque culture. Euskara, the basque language. The number of people who currently speak Euskara – counting those within the Basque Country as well as in the rest of the world – comes to almost 750,000. Xiberotarrak (2012 - EKE) Gipuzkoa is the most Basque-speaking territory.
Basque (Basque: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people in the Basque Country and its diaspora. Although most other Europeans speak Indo-European languages , Basque is a language isolate and is not related to them or to any other language in the world.
- 715,000 (2012)
- Basque
- Spain, France
- Spanish Basque Country, Spanish Navarre, French Basque Country
Basque (Euskara) is one of the oldest languages in Western Europe, preceding the Indo-European tongues. Various scholars claim that there exist nexus between Basque and Iberian, Berber or some of the languages found around the Caucasus, but the origins of Euskara remain a mystery.
Euskara is a genetically isolated language; in other words, it is related to no other known language family. As often happens with languages that cannot be linked to any other language group, a number of hypotheses have been put forward over the centuries to explain the origin of Basque.
