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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. History and classification.
The Basques ( / bɑːsks / BAHSKS or / bæsks / BASKS; Basque: euskaldunak [eus̺kaldunak]; Spanish: vascos [ˈbaskos]; French: basques [bask]) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, [6] [7] [8] characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.
Basque ( / ˈbæsk, ˈbɑːsk /; euskara [ eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is the last surviving Paleo-European language spoken in Europe, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today.
The origin of the Basques and the Basque language is a controversial topic that has given rise to numerous hypotheses. Modern Basque, a descendant or close relative of Aquitanian and Proto-Basque, is the only pre-Indo-European language that is extant in western Europe. The Basques have therefore long been supposed to be a remnant of a pre-Indo ...
The Basque Wikipedia ( Basque: Euskarazko Wikipedia [1] or Euskal Wikipedia) is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on December 6, 2001, [2] although its main page was created in November 2003, it reached 58,124 articles by August 19, 2010, making it the 45th-largest Wikipedia. [3] .
Standard Basque (Basque: euskara batua or simply batua) is a standardised version of the Basque language, developed by the Basque Language Academy in the late 1960s, which nowadays is the most widely and commonly spoken Basque-language version throughout the Basque Country.
Home. 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.
