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Standard Basque (Basque: euskara batua, lit. 'united Basque') is a standardised version of the Basque language, developed by the Basque Language Academy in the late 1960s, which nowadays is the most widely and commonly spoken Basque-language version throughout the Basque Country.
Martin-ek Martin- ERG egunkari-ak newspaper- PL. ABS erosten buy- GER di-zki-t AUX. 3. OBJ - PL. OBJ -me. IO [3SG _ SBJ] Martin-ek egunkari-ak erosten di-zki-t Martin-ERG newspaper-PL.ABS buy-GER AUX.3.OBJ-PL.OBJ-me.IO[3SG_SBJ] "Martin buys the newspapers for me." Martin-ek is the agent (transitive subject), so it is marked with the ergative case ending -k (with an epenthetic -e-). Egunkariak ...
The origin of the Basques and the Basque language is a controversial topic that has given rise to numerous hypotheses. Modern Basque, a descendant or close relative of Aquitanian and Proto-Basque, is the only pre-Indo-European language that is extant in western Europe.
The Euskal Hiztegi Historiko-Etimologikoa (EHHE; English: Basque Historical-Etymological Dictionary) is a historical and etymological dictionary of Basque, published by the Royal Academy of the Basque language, edited by Joseba Lakarra, Julen Manterola, and Iñaki Segurola.
Proto-Basque (Basque: aitzineuskara; Spanish: protoeuskera, protovasco; French: proto-basque) [a] is a reconstructed ancient stage of the Basque language. It preceded another reconstructed stage, Common Basque, which is derived by comparing dialects of modern Basque .
The engraving used an early Basque alphabet, experts said, the oldest and most extensive text ever written in the Basque language. The writing proved difficult to decipher.
In a sample of 135,878,500 characters, the most common letter in Basque is a and the least common is ç . [7] Note that ü is treated as a variant of u and is not considered to be a separate letter of the Basque alphabet. The letter ü is used: 1. In the Suletin (Zuberoan) dialect of Basque. 2.
Beginning in the late 1800s, young Basque men came to America hoping to earn money to send home to their families. Many came to the U.S. West.