Basque is one of Europe’s most unique and ancient languages, spoken by the Basque people in Spain and France, in an area comprising approximately 3,900 square miles (10,000 square kilometres).
Basque (Euskara)
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Classification
Basque
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Speakers
806,000
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Script
Basque
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Other names
Euskara, euskera
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Also spoken
Spain
Basque (Euskara)
The Basque language is unique in that it’s a language isolate, sharing no common roots with the languages of surrounding countries.
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Services offered for this language
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Interesting fact
Spanish takes many loan words from Basque. An obvious example is the Spanish word "izquierda" (left) which bears no resemblance to the word for left in other Romance languages (Latin: sinister, Italian: sinistra). It is taken from the Basque "ezkerda".
