Basque
E42297
Basque is a unique, ancient language isolate spoken by the Basque people in northern Spain and southwestern France, unrelated to any other known language family.
Aliases (3)
- Basque language ×6
- Basque people ×4
- Euskara ×1
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language
→
language isolate → natural language → |
| estimatedSpeakers | around 750000 → |
| glottocode | basq1248 → |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SOV → |
| hasCaseSystem | ergative–absolutive → |
| hasDialect |
Biscayan
→
Gipuzkoa →
surface form: "Gipuzkoan"
Lapurdian → Lower Navarrese → Souletin → Upper Navarrese → |
| hasFeature |
extensive case marking
→
no grammatical gender → polypersonal agreement → postpositions → rich verbal morphology → vowel harmony absence → |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
French
→
Latin → Spanish → |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative → |
| hasRegulatoryBody | Euskaltzaindia → |
| hasStandardForm | Standard Basque → |
| ISO639-1Code | eu → |
| ISO639-2Code | eus → |
| ISO639-3Code | eus → |
| isOfficialLanguageOf |
Basque Country
→
surface form: "Basque Autonomous Community"
Navarre (parts) → |
| isRelatedTo |
Basque
→
surface form: "Basque people"
|
| isUnrelatedTo |
Indo-European language family
→
surface form: "Indo-European languages"
Romance languages → |
| languageFamily | language isolate → |
| nativeName |
Basque
→
surface form: "Euskara"
|
| recognizedMinorityLanguageIn | France → |
| region |
northern Spain
→
surface form: "Northern Spain"
southwestern France →
surface form: "Southwestern France"
|
| regulatoryBodyInEnglish |
Euskaltzaindia
→
surface form: "Royal Academy of the Basque Language"
|
| spokenIn |
Basque Country
→
France → Navarre → Northern Basque Country → Spain → |
| standardVarietyName | Euskara Batua → |
| usedAs |
language of culture and literature
→
language of education (in Basque regions) → language of media (in Basque regions) → |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet → |
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
subject surface form: "Northern Spain"
subject surface form: "Gernikako Arbola"
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
this entity surface form: "Euskara"