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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
German
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)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Cebuano
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)
Macedonian
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)
Dzongkha
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)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

7.20 million
Rank: 65 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

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

5.3 Native Speakers

7.20 million
Rank: 57 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
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)
Chinese
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

Origin of Basque language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Basque language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Basque language states that it was put to use in c. 1000. The history of Basque language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Basque Language History.The evolution of Basque language began with early forms such as Proto-Basque, Aquitanian. Basque is the standard form of Basque language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Basque Language.

Basque population

Basque population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Basque language. Basque language is spoken by 7.20 million people in the world. Most of the Basque population lies in the Basque Speaking Countries. Basque language is spoken as first language by 7.20 million people and no total count of people speaking Basque as second language. Get to know Basque speaking population in detail.

Basque writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Basque writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Basque language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Basque language. Learn more about . 

Information about Basque language

Check out all the information about Basque language here. You may find it interesting to learn Basque Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Basque Speaking Countries, Basque speaking continents and Basque Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Basque countries knowing common Basque Greetings will help you in communicating with Basque people.