Basque language

The Basque language, known to speakers as Euskara, is one of the few non-Indo-European languages to survive in Europe to the present day.^[1]^[2] There are no languages related to the Basque language.

The BBC News reported, in 2017, that 700,000 people speak the basque language.

References

↑ "Ancient DNA cracks puzzle of Basque origins". BBC News. 2015-09-07. Archived from the original on 2022-06-03. Retrieved 2022-08-20. mirror
↑ "The mysterious origins of Europe's oldest language". BBC News. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2022-08-20. Euskara, spoken in the autonomous communities of Navarre in northern Spain and the Basque Country across northern Spain and south-western France, is a mystery: it has no known origin or relation to any other language, an anomaly that has stumped linguistic experts for ages.

[Bbc2015-09-07-1] "Ancient DNA cracks puzzle of Basque origins". BBC News. 2015-09-07. Archived from the original on 2022-06-03. Retrieved 2022-08-20. mirror

[bbc2017-07-19-2] "The mysterious origins of Europe's oldest language". BBC News. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2022-08-20. Euskara, spoken in the autonomous communities of Navarre in northern Spain and the Basque Country across northern Spain and south-western France, is a mystery: it has no known origin or relation to any other language, an anomaly that has stumped linguistic experts for ages.

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