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abarca "sandal" (cf. Basque abarka < abar "branch", because they were originally made of branches). The word was loaned in Mozarabic and even in Arab pargha/bargha and from here to Spanish alpargata (Trask 2008, 74). abertzale / aberzale "Basque patriot, Basque nationalist" (cf. Basque abertzale). Recent loanword as it is a Basque neologism ...
See as example Category:English words. Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Basque words and phrases" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
For example, pidgin berrua usnia ('warm milk-DET') versus Basque esne beroa ('milk warm-DET'). [ 22 ] Although there are quite a few Spanish and French words listed in the glossaries, this is not a sign of the pidgin language, but rather a result of French and Spanish influence on the Basque language throughout the ages, since Basque has taken ...
An example of Basque lettering in a funerary stela. Basque is written using the Latin script including ñ and sometimes ç and ü . Basque does not use c, q, v, w, y for native words, but the Basque alphabet (established by Euskaltzaindia) does include them for loanwords: [82]
Erromintxela (Basque pronunciation: [eromintʃela] ⓘ) is the distinctive language of a group of Romani living in the Basque Country, who also go by the name Erromintxela. It is sometimes called Basque Caló [2] or Errumantxela [3] in English; caló vasco, romaní vasco, or errominchela in Spanish; and euskado-rromani [4] or euskado-romani [5 ...
Basque words and phrases (2 C, 3 P) Basque-language works (2 C) Pages in category "Basque language" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
With superlatives, as in Donostia is the prettiest city in the Basque Country, on the other hand, the Basque Country is not really a standard but a domain or range within which the superlative applies. The structures used in such comparisons in Basque are as follows (the second table shows examples); the word orders shown are the most common ...
Modern Basque dialects show a high degree of dialectal divergence. However, cross-dialectal communication even without prior knowledge of either Standard Basque or the other dialect is normally possible to a reasonable extent, with the notable of exception of Zuberoan (also called Souletin), which is regarded as the most divergent Basque dialect.