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    Basque 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. Basque is spoken by the Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in … See more

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

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    The region where Basque is spoken has become smaller over centuries, especially at the northern, southern, and eastern borders. Nothing is … 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 used for the 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 … See more

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    Basque is geographically surrounded by Romance languages but is a language isolate unrelated to them, and indeed, to any other language in the world. It is the last remaining … See more

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    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

     
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