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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

France, Spain

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.

1.9 Similar To

Spanish

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

27
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Kaixo

3.2 Thank You

Eskerrik asko

3.3 How Are You?

Zer moduz?

3.4 Good Night

Gabon

3.5 Good Evening

Arratsalde on

3.6 Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on

3.7 Good Morning

Egun on

3.8 Please

Mesedez

3.9 Sorry

Barkatu

3.10 Bye

Agur

3.11 I Love You

Maite zaitut

3.12 Excuse Me

Barkatu

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

France

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

68,000.00
Rank: 44 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Souletin

4.2.1 Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

8,700.00
Rank: 42 (Overall)
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700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Biscayan

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Spain

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

7.20 million
Rank: 65 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

7.20 million
Rank: 57 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Not available

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

5.3.4 French Name

basque

5.3.5 German Name

Baskisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Basque people

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 1000

6.2 Language Family

Vasconic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Basque

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Not Available

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

eu

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

eus

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

baq

7.3 ISO 639 3

eus

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

basq1248

7.6 Linguasphere

40-AAA-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Not Available

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Basque

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Basque Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Basque Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Basque. Basque phonology gives Basque vowels and Basque consonants. There are 5 vowels and 21 consonants in Basque language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Basque is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Basque language is given in detail in this section.

All Basque countries

Want to explore all Basque countries? About Basque language serves you with all Basque Speaking Countries. Countries that use Basque as official language are called as Basque countries.

  • Countries that use Basque as their National Language are: France, Spain.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Basque as second language are: Basque is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Basque greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Basque Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Basque language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Basque language.Learn Basque greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Kaixo
  • Thank you: Eskerrik asko
  • Good Morning: Egun on
  • Good Evening: Arratsalde on
  • Good Afternoon: Arratsalde on

All Basque Language Codes

Get to know all Basque language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Basque Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.