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.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Basque canonical 84
Basque language 31
Basque people 4

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 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Basque people
isUnrelatedTo Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
languageFamily language isolate
nativeName Basque self-linksurface differs
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 (124)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dolores Ibárruri ethnicGroup Basque
this entity surface form: Basque people
Guernica hasLanguage Basque
Juan Sebastián Elcano ethnicGroup Basque
this entity surface form: Basque people
Juan Sebastián Elcano languageSpoken Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Nicholas hasLanguageOfUse Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Basque Country hasOfficialLanguage Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Basque Country ethnicGroup Basque
this entity surface form: Basque people
Pablo hasLanguageOfUse Basque
Juan de Garay ethnicGroup Basque
Elizabeth hasLanguageOfUse Basque
Basque nativeName Basque self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Euskara
Basque isRelatedTo Basque self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Basque people
Lordship of Biscay hasLanguage Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
John languageOfUse Basque
northern Spain hasLanguage Basque
subject surface form: Northern Spain
Navarre coOfficialLanguage Basque
Villava languageUsed Basque
La Pasionaria ethnicGroup Basque
Gernika, Argentina languageOfToponym Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Old Spanish influencedBy Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Gernikako Arbola (Tree of Guernica) hasLanguageOfName Basque
subject surface form: Gernikako Arbola
Rentería hasLanguage Basque
Blas de Lezo ethnicGroup Basque
Mikel hasLanguageUsage Basque
Mikel hasOriginIn Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Echeverría etymologicalOrigin Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Hispano-Romance dialects influencedBy Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Peninsular Spanish influencedBy Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Arana languageOfOrigin Basque
Mateo hasLanguageOfUse Basque
Northern Basque Country majorLanguage Basque
this entity surface form: Basque language
Biscay officialLanguage Basque