A language and a people are what Basque is. Specifically, the language is spoken on both sides of the border separating southwestern France and northwestern Spain. The peopl…e reside in the three provinces which are found on the French side and the four on the Spanish. They either speak Basque as their first language from birth or in tandem with fluency in French and/or Spanish. (MORE)
Spain and France: Basque is spoken by the Basque people that inhabit the Basque Country, which is a region that covers northeastern Spain and southwestern France.
Those who support complete independence of Euzkadi ("The Basque Country") from France and Spain have been called Basque extremists. Specifically, Euzkadi consists of thr…ee provinces which are found on the northwestern side of border between southwestern France and northwestern Spain as well as of four provinces which are found on the southwestern side. The four provinces which make up the Southern Basque Country have autonomous status within Spain by the 1978 Constitution. Some Basque people would like the provinces to be joined in a country which has complete independence from the region's other two countries. (MORE)
Unknown are the origins of the Basquelanguage. Specifically,experts and scholars give Euskara ("Basque language") its ownlinguistic category as a language isolate since it… is not known tobe related to any other language in the world. Some scholarsnevertheless hypothesize that the language may be related to theextinct Aquitanian or Iberian languages spoken anciently on eitherside of the modern France-Spain border. Other hypotheses - whichwere more current in the late 20 th century than in theearly 21 st -- include linguistic origins withinEurasia's Caucasus. (MORE)
" Sukaldea " is a Basque equivalent of "kitchen." There are seven provinces that make up the Basque Country (Euzkadi). The four provinces that straddle the French-Spanish bor…der to the south are Araba, Bizkaia, Gipuzoa and Nafarroa. The three provinces that straddle that same international border to the north are Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea and Zuberoa. There are regional and even local differences in the accents, cultures and histories of the seven provinces. But despite an interaction with France in the north and with Spain in the south, there always have been many points of unity and unification among all seven. One such unifying factor is in the delicious, often hearty and sometimes surprising masterpieces of rural and urban Basque cooking. (MORE)
" Kaixo " is a Basque equivalent of "Hi" or "Hello." The Basque word is an informal, friendly greeting. Each of the seven Basque provinces has their own dialect. The Basque… that I speak is Guizpuzkoan, from the province on the Spanish side of the Spain-France border. But this greeting would be recognizable throughout the Basque Country. The pronunciation is "Keye-*SHOH." *The sound "eye" is similar to that in the English noun "eye." (MORE)
" Gaztelu " is a Basque equivalent of "castle." The Basque word is a noun. A Basque equivalent of "one castle" is " bat gaztelu ." The pronunciation is "baht gah-STEH-loo…." (MORE)