About Basque Language | Basque | Alphabets in Basque

Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

France, Spain

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

Interesting Facts

The Basque language is the oldest European language.
Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.

Similar To

Spanish

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 9 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 11 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks

Rank: 19 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Kaixo

Thank You

Eskerrik asko

How Are You?

Zer moduz?

Good Night

Gabon

Good Evening

Arratsalde on

Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on

Good Morning

Egun on

Please

Mesedez

Sorry

Barkatu

Bye

Agur

I Love You

Maite zaitut

Excuse Me

Barkatu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian

Where They Speak

France

How Many People Speak

68,000.00

Rank: 81 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Souletin

Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak

8,700.00

Rank: 88 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Biscayan

Where They Speak

Spain

How Many People Speak

750,000.00

Rank: 56 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.20 million

Rank: 65 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.12 %

Rank: 55 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

7.20 million

Rank: 57 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million

Rank: 62 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Euskara

Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

French Name

basque

German Name

Baskisch

Pronunciation

[bɑːsk]

Ethnicity

Basque people

History

Origin

c. 1000

Language Family

Vasconic Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

Standard Forms

Basque

Language Position

Rank: 28 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Basque Sign Language

Scope

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eus

ISO 639 2/B

baq

ISO 639 3

eus

ISO 639 6

eus

Glottocode

basq1248

Linguasphere

40-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Basque

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Basque Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Basque Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Basque. Basque phonology gives Basque vowels and Basque consonants. There are 5 vowels and 21 consonants in Basque language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Basque is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Basque language is given in detail in this section.

All Basque countries

Want to explore all Basque countries? About Basque language serves you with all Basque Speaking Countries. Countries that use Basque as official language are called as Basque countries.

Countries that use Basque as their National Language are: France, Spain.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Basque as second language are: Basque is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Basque greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Basque Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Basque language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Basque language.Learn Basque greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Kaixo
Thank you: Eskerrik asko
Good Morning: Egun on
Good Evening: Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon: Arratsalde on

All Basque Language Codes

Get to know all Basque language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Basque Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.