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)

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.

Navarre coOfficialLanguage Basque
Basque Country ethnicGroup Basque
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
Juan de Garay ethnicGroup Basque
La Pasionaria ethnicGroup Basque
Guernica hasLanguage Basque
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
northern Spain hasLanguage Basque
subject surface form: "Northern Spain"
Rentería hasLanguage Basque
subject surface form: "Gernikako Arbola"
Elizabeth hasLanguageOfUse Basque
Nicholas hasLanguageOfUse Basque
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
Pablo hasLanguageOfUse Basque
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
Old Spanish influencedBy Basque
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
Basque isRelatedTo Basque
this entity surface form: "Basque people"
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
John languageOfUse Basque
this entity surface form: "Basque language"
Villava languageUsed Basque
Basque nativeName Basque
this entity surface form: "Euskara"

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