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Countries

Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
27 9

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks 19

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 81

Dialect 2
Souletin

Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak
8,700.00 88

Dialect 3
Biscayan

Where They Speak
Spain

How Many People Speak
750,000.00 56

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.20 million 65

Speaking Population
0.12 % 55

Native Speakers
7.20 million 57

Second Language Speakers
0.70 million 62

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
30 28

Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language

Scope
-

Code

ISO 639 1
eu

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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