Basques speak a language called Euskara, but today only about 25% of the population is fluent in that tongue. Even so, the word for a Basque person, euskaldun, means "possessor of the Basque language.

The Basque Country High Court has established as a criterion in all of them that Basque language proficiency should not be required in all public positions, but that it is the responsibility of ...

Inscriptions found on a 2000-year-old metal hand may be written in a language related to modern-day Basque. If this interpretation is correct, it could help explain the origins of the Basque ...

The Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno is the leading research and educational institute of its kind in the United States, offering you an unparalleled opportunity to study ...

It is a typically held opinion that the Basque language—from its first medieval testimonies confined to the Basque Country, Navarre, and some neighboring areas in Huesca, Burgos, and La Rioja, which ...

Madrid has also called for the languages — Catalan, Basque, and Galician — to become official EU languages, meeting with objections from some other member states. A member of Sanchez's ...

Under Franco the Basque language was banned, the region's distinctive culture was suppressed and intellectuals were imprisoned and tortured for their political and cultural beliefs. Franco's death ...