In Basque, the name of the language is officially euskara (alongside various dialect forms).
In French, the language is normally called basque, though euskara has become common in recent … See more

The region where Basque is spoken has become smaller over centuries, especially at the northern, southern, and eastern borders. Nothing is known about the limits of this region in ancient times, but on the basis of toponyms and epigraphs, it seems that in the … See more

Basque is an ergative–absolutive language. The subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutive case (which is unmarked), and the same case is … See more

Basque is written using the Latin script including ⟨ñ⟩ and sometimes ⟨ç⟩ and ⟨ü⟩. Basque does not use ⟨c, q, v, w, y⟩ for native words, but the Basque alphabet (established by See more

Basque is geographically surrounded by Romance languages but is a language isolate unrelated to them, and indeed, to any other language … See more

Vowels
The Basque language features five vowels: /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/ and /u/ (the same that are found in See more

Through contact with neighbouring peoples, Basque has adopted many words from Latin, Spanish, French and Gascon, among other … See more