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BASQUE [2 records]

Record 1 1995-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

The language of the Basques or Euskaldunak, people of unknown origin inhabiting the western Pyrenees regions in France and Spain, a language not known to be related to any other language.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue non indo-européenne parlée au Pays basque par un demi-million de Basques. Cette langue est un idiome absolument isolé au milieu des langues romanes. Ses locuteurs sont partagés entre la France et l'Espagne, dans les régions bordières de l'Océan, de l'ouest d'Oloron à Bilbao (Biscaye) et du sud de Bayonne aux abords septentrionaux de Vitoria et de Pampelune.

Spanish

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Record 2 1992-07-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language Teaching
  • Anthropology
DEF

Basque; used by some ethnologists to designate that pre-Aryan element in the population of Europe, which they suppose to be typically represented by the Basques.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enseignement des langues
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Du pays basque.

Spanish

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