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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 .
Because the French Basque Country is not under the influence of the Basque Autonomous Country government, people in the region have fewer incentives from government authorities to learn the language. As such, these results represent another decrease from previous years (22.5% in 2006, 24.8% in 2001 and 26.4 in 1996 or 56,146 in 1996 to 51,197 ...
The number of people that can speak Basque has increased in Navarre lately, [45] after a steady historic retreat. In 2011, 13.6% of the population in Navarre considered themselves to be speakers of Basque and another 14.5% considered themselves semi-speakers of Basque. [ 46 ]
(people living in the Basque Provinces of Spain, including some areas where most people do not identify themselves as Basque) 2,410,000 [1] [2] France (people living in the French Basque Country, not all of whom identify as Basque) 239,000 [1] United States (self-identifying as having Basque ancestry) 57,793 [3] Canada (including those of mixed ...
At any rate, local councils have agreed to promote Basque in their towns. [16] According to a 2012 linguistic study 22% of the population can speak Basque, and another 17% understand (but do not speak) the language. Basque is more prevalent among younger people, as 65% of those under 16 are bilingual. [19]
The Basque language (or Euskara, c. 750,000) is a language isolate and the ancestral language of the Basque people who inhabit the Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains mostly in northeastern Spain and partly in southwestern France of about 3 million inhabitants, where it is spoken fluently by about 750,000 and understood ...
The 2006 sociolinguistic survey [10] 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%).
The French Basque Country (French: Pays basque français; Spanish: País Vasco francés), or Northern Basque Country (Basque: Ipar Euskal Herria, or Iparralde, lit. ' the Northern Region ' ), is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques .