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4 unusual facts about Basque language


Etchemendy

Etchemendy is a surname of Basque origin meaning 'the mountain with a house(s) on it'.

Selectividad

#Galician, Catalan or Valencian and Basque are also common subjects in Galicia; Catalonia and Balearic Islands, Valencia; and the Basque Country, respectively.

#Galician, Catalan, Valencian and Basque are also common subjects in Galicia; Catalonia and Balearic Islands, Valencia; and the Basque Country, respectively

Vascon

by extension, the cultural features related to the area where the Basque language was supposedly spoken at the arrival of the Romans.


Aezkoa

The Basque sub-dialect of the vallye, known as Aezkoera, belongs to the High Navarrese dialect but it has strong influence from Lower Navarrese and specially nearby subdialect of Salazar Valley.

Apellániz

Apellániz (Apiñaniz in Basque) is a town located in the municipality of Arraia-Maeztu, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Arbonne

According to the Map of the Seven Basque Provinces by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte the basque dialect spoken in Arbonne is northern Upper Navarrese

Barriobusto

Barriobusto (Gorrebusto in Basque) is a town located in the municipality of Oyón-Oion, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Bizkaiko Txakolina

Txakoli de Bizkaia – Bizkaiko Txakolina is a Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) (Jatorrizko Deitura in Basque) for wines, located in the province of Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain.

Cerbère

Given the antiquity of the name, it must be assumed to be a pre-Latin name, and to come from the pre-Indo-European root kar or ker (rock) followed by the Ibero-Basque root -erri (place).

Corres

Corres (Korres in Basque) is a town located in the municipality of Arraia-Maeztu, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Gatibu

The language that sung is Biscayan dialect of Basque (bizkaiera), not as the unified batua that do most of Basque groups.

Gerd Jendraschek

Jendraschek, Gerd is a German linguist specialized in Basque, Turkish, and Iatmul (a language from the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea).

Jean-Baptiste Élissalde

His surname (Elizalde in Standard Basque, from eliza "church" and alde "side"), means "near the church" in Basque.

Karlos Arguiñano

Karlos and Urkiola are spelled in Basque, not the Spanish Carlos and Urquiola, but Arguiñano is spelled in Spanish, not the Basque Argiñano.

Kartvelian languages

If the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, which attempts to link Basque, Burushaski, the North Caucasian families and other phyla, is correct, then the similarities to Basque may also be due to these influences, however indirect.

National identity

A notable example was in Spain under the authoritarian dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1947) who abolished the official status and recognition of the Basque, Galician, and Catalan languages for the first time in the history of Spain and returned to Spanish as the only official language of the State and education, although millions of the country's citizens spoke other languages.

Nils Holmer

Unusually, he carried out fieldwork across a wide range of languages across several continents, including Irish, Basque, Siouan languages, Algonquian languages, Iroquoian languages, the Central American language Kuna and the South American language of Choco and Wayuu and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Regional literature of France

Catalan literature and literature in the Basque language also benefit from the existence of a readership outside the borders of France.

Salbatore Mitxelena

Salbatore Mitxelena (1919, Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, (Spain) – 1965 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland), was a friar and a writer in the Basque language.

Sautrela

The name for the project derives from the closing chapter of Linguæ Vasconum Primitiæ the first book ever printed in the Basque in 1545.

Serafin Baroja

The next year he wrote the libretto for the first Basque opera, Pudente, a story set in the mines of Rio Tinto at the time of Trajan.

Vizcarra

Vizcarra (sometimes spelled as "Viscarra") is a Basque surname which originated in the town of Guernica, Spain.


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Gabriel Aresti

He founded the publishing house Lur, allowing new authors in the Basque language like Ramon Saizarbitoria, Arantxa Urretabizkaia or Xabier Lete to publish their first works.

Origin of the Basques

The Finnish linguist Kalevi Wiik proposed in 2008 that the current Basque language is the remainder of a group of "Basque languages" that were spoken in the Paleolithic in all western Europe.