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  1. Basque is the oldest European language still in use today and is thought to be a descendant of Aquitani, an ancient language which was spoken around the Pyrenees, dating as far back as 200 BC.
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    Basque (Euskara) is one of the oldest languages in Western Europe, preceding the Indo-European tongues.
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    Basque — one the oldest living languages — is thought to be descended from a language spoken by the Vascones, an Iron-Age people who inhabited parts of northern Spain before the Romans arrived in the region in the first century bc.
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    Clearly No: Spain’s oldest (attested) living languages are exactly all the Indo-European ones. The history of Spanish, Catalan and Galician (through Latin) can be traced back thousands of years, into its probable pre-Proto-Indo-European origin in the Russian steppes, near present-day Ukraine.
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    Basque language - Wikipedia

    When only one parent was a Basque speaker and their first language was Basque, 84% used Basque and Spanish and 16% only Spanish. In Navarre, the family language of 94.3% of the youngest respondents with both Basque parents was Basque. See more

    Basque is the only surviving descendant of the Paleo-European languages, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the European continent today. Basque is spoken by the 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 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 used for the See more

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

    Although the Basque language is geographically surrounded by Romance languages, it is a language isolate that is unrelated to them or to any other language. Most scholars believe Basque to be the last remaining descendant of one of the 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 languages. There are a considerable number … See more

     
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