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In some provinces the public use of Basque was suppressed, with people fined for speaking it. [10] Public use of Basque was frowned upon by supporters of the regime, often regarded as a sign of anti-Francoism or separatism. [11] Overall, in the 1960s and later, the trend reversed and education and publishing in Basque began to flourish. [12]
Only Spanish is an official language of Navarre, and the Basque language is only co-official in the province's northern region, where most Basque-speaking Navarrese are concentrated. About a quarter of a million people live in the French Basque Country.
The Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria; Spanish: País Vasco; French: Pays basque) is the name given to the home of the Basque people. [1] The Basque Country is located in the western Pyrenees , straddling the border between France and Spain on the coast of the Bay of Biscay .
But the results were very different in the three zones. In the inner land (Lower Navarre and Soule), 66.2% speak or understand Basque. In the coast (Labourd), the figure stands at 36.9%. And in the B.A.B. urban zone (Bayonne- Anglet-Biarritz), only 14.2% speak or understand Basque (20% of B.A.B. can speak or understand Gascon). The proportion ...
The 2006 sociolinguistic survey [9] of all Basque provinces showed that in 2006 of all people aged 16 and above in the Basque Autonomous Community, 30.1% were fluent Basque speakers, 18.3% passive speakers and 51.5% did not speak Basque. The percentage of Basque speakers was highest in Gipuzkoa (49.1% speakers) and lowest in Álava (14.2%).
Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France; Basque Country (autonomous community), an autonomous region of Spain; Northern Basque Country, in the western part of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques of France; Southern Basque Country, both the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre
The majority of languages of Spain [4] belong to the Romance language family, of which Spanish is the only one with official status in the whole country. [5] [6] Others, including Catalan (in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands) and Galician (in Galicia), enjoy official status in their respective autonomous regions, similar to Basque in the northeast of the country (a non-Romance ...
German (German-speaking community) [13] English Belize: 1 English ... Basque language; Breton language; Occitan language: Gabon: 1 French The Gambia: 1 English Georgia: 1