A language like no other
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- Basque: a language like no other. Enjoy this introduction the only language in all of Europe that isn't related to any other.
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Basque has been getting a lot of attention lately and I'm all for it. Its unmatched resilience is awe inspiring
Bro u used all the words which weren't in my dictionary to describe basque language 💀
It really is, as someone who’s country’s language is dying and the people don’t care it really is amazing
@@cygnusmir1627out of curiosity which is it?
@@alejandror.planas9802 Irish
@@alejandror.planas9802Sugondese
There is a large population of Basque in Boise, Idaho, originating from the shepherds who came to expertly manage flocks. I had the privilege of listening to the language spoken and attending one of their festivals, a wonderful experience.
I came here to say the same thing. It's the largest Basque population outside of France or Spain. I remember interviewing a Basque speaker for a social studies project in 9th grade. (Unfortunately the only thing I still remember from that is to never film someone inside with a window behind them, or you'll just get a silhouette.) I went to several events at the Basque Center.
@@pfcrow not true, much larger populations exist in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and even México.
Ooh nice
the name of "Arizona" comes to the basque language.
@@mariar.6741 it's one of the hypotheses indeed.
I've recently been chatting with a Basque lady. It's an incredible language, and a fun culture. Language isolates fascinate me and often show a proud culture that "stuck to their guns" in the face of much oppression.
There's a pretty cool Basque-language fantasy horror film from 2017 called Errementari which is well worth checking out, even just to listen to the language alone.
Oh! It's on Netflix!
Love that movie! It's like a fairytale, a grim and epic fairytale.
I assume it's just a coincidence, but I found it kinda funny that "Errementari" is essentially just the way a Japanese person would pronounce "Elementary"
@@alexcallender😂
Errementari sounds like Elementary
I was just in Basque country. In fact, we spent a day in San Sebastián and then Hendaye (France), so probably the other side of that beach you're standing on.
That's the place!
Donostia
@@davidcfrogley it's interesting that when commenting on a video about Basque, you chose to call the city San Sebastián and not Donostia.
@@Luritsas I don't speak Basque, unfortunately, so the Spanish name is the one I've always used. 🤷♂️
@@davidcfrogley it's not like it's more difficult to say Donostia than San Sebastián. Same with Hendaia instead of Hendaye.
Basque people also have the highest concentration of RH negative blood type in the world
Really? I thought I heard it was jewish people.
That's so interesting !
And that fact was used by the Basque Nationalist Party's founder, Sabino Arana, to promote the idea that basque were racially superior.
@@UHF43 at a time when everybody in Europe was doing the same.
@@UHF43
1. Houston Stewart Chamberlain - British/German
2. Charles Maurras - French
3. Roman Dmowski - Polish
4. Mihály Károlyi - Hungarian
5. Nikolai Danilevsky - Russian
6. Völkisch Movement Leaders (e.g., Guido von List, Lanz von Liebenfels) - Germans.
We sang a basque song with our choir a while back. It's honestly a beautiful language
Have you ever done a video about the whistling language of La Gomera in Las Canarias? It would be interesting.
I love the story of the Basque language! I also thought that Hungarian was unrelated to any other European language.
No, Hungarian is not an isolate. It's an Ugric language, belonging to the Finno-Ugric language family.
Thank you for the clarification!@@BigNews2021
Yeah, Finnish, Karelian, Estonian and the tens of other Finno-Ugric languages are made up by Tolkien
@@BigNews2021 It’s a Uralic language. The Finno-Ugric branch is not proven, but the Uralic family is. I don’t understand why people keep calling the Uralic languages “Finno-Ugric” instead.
I traveled a bit with my brother, at Bilbao and the Area
wow!! i had no idea basque had such an intense history, i only knew of it from "basque cheesecake" that a local small business near me sells.
I don't speak or write Spanish but I bloody well read that sign perfectly 😂😂 basque, not a clue. I recently found out I'm related to the basque people so gonna be having a ganders at me ancestors, I tell u tho, it explains my brothers nose 😅😂
My great great great grandmother didn't speak any castellano. Only basque. Now I don't speak any basque. Mostly Spanish and then english
@@MiryaSosume Do you not want to learn Basque?
Just curious, is this the only true Indigenous European language to have survived from before the Indo-European, Uralic, Turkic, etc. languages arrived?
Yes, it is. It’s called a Paleo-European language, the only surviving one. It’s fascinating to me how approximately half of the DNA of most Europeans is from the Paleo-Europeans, but none of us are connected to their culture except for the Basque.
We cant stop here, this is Basque country. 😆
LOVE the Basque country!!
It’s in New Brunswick Canada too
Mila esker! Hizkuntza hau asko gustatzen zait!
Duolingo needs to add this language.
There are very recent studies of the Basque language that might suggest that the Basque language may be related to the Anatolian language family. This would make it the only surviving language of this family, and give it ties to the languages spoken by the ancient Trojans and Hittites who lived in modern day Turkey.
Oh that's cool!
I would think that they were originally from there abouts. They kind of look like Armenians for some reason.
It is suppossed to come from the original Iberic languaje, pre romanization of the Peninsula.
"Bi" for "2" reminds me of the prefix "bi-" we use. Is there perhaps any connection there?
Seguramente
I’m glad you got some holidays in!
Bon dia from Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain! Basque and Catalan ( that comes from the Latin), both languages were persecuted during the 40 years of Franco's dictatorship in Spain. As you said, it is in the South of France were we can hear Basque, but also Catalan. We have a lot in common. Always fighting not just against loosing our languages but also our identities. I am really lucky to belong to families from these two regions of Spain and Happy because our country, Spain, is a really special one. Salut!😊❤
I went last year, it just so happened to be their "independence" day. The whole city was a big party, i had a blast
I remember walking through there while doing the Camino De Santiago, really beautiful!
De donde empezaste s?
@@MiryaSosume Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port 😀
@@FatPandaChinese joder que lejos. Yo con mi cole empecé en sarria y la segunda vez no me acuerdo pero por un caminoas rugoso
Is this dude the love child of Steve Coogan and James Blunt?
"Rather intense fellow" 😅
little bit of an understatement
He was so intense that people criticise him only after his death.
Beautiful language
It's not only northern Spain but also southern France
Munguia here 🤘🏽
Yes! Euskal Herria.
thought you weren't gonna mention it spreads into France, also, interesting to note that u see Basque on signs, on the southern side of the border, not sure it's the same in France
What about Lap from Laplandia?
What is "Lap"?
Hungary too
Related to Finnish
geezer- man eng.gizun- basque. - man
Free Basque people from Spanish colonization
Wasn't it kind forbidden to call it a country while in Spain?
Mate... What is this... I'll do a video about how the sky is blue
You're obviously invested
The only few non PIE languages in Europe.
Does anyone know why the Basque language is not related to any neighbouring languages?!? It is unusual for a language to form in isolation...
It is thought to be a survivor language from before latin was spread over southern Europe, but why it hasn't relation to indoeuropean languages AT ALL...
Now that's difficult xd. The only thing we know for sure is that all the mountanious terrain helped in that isolation.
PD: I am not an expert and may have messed up at some point :)
Basque vs Hungarian
I've always thought that any language that is mostly mumbled vowels is extremely difficult to understand.
Oh franco tried, but then the basques send his protegee into space a morning of december
Lmao, we joke about that here too lol
So where did it come from?
It's a language isolate so it came from a proto-Basque language family which almost went extinct.
I wish i was able to speak my native irish, but somone did the same here :)
Ireland is an independent country.
@@alanwhite3154since when ? and how long wasnt it independent ? and perchance what might have been done to stop the language from been spoken ?
Or what are you exactly trying to say ?
I am a Basque. And I approve this message. (Except for the number 5. We say ‘bortz’ here.
Bi for 2 seems logical.
Basque people are aliens (just joking) love from🇵🇹
Depende de donde seas, en mi zona se dice "bost"
=3
He did say bortz, but the subtitles made it into bost.
I tried to learn some Basque a while back. It is the strangest and hardest language I've ever tried to learn. Finnish and Japanese are pretty hard because they're so different, but at least there's some logic to their ways of doing things. Basque seems like it was made to be as challenging as possible while still functioning as a language to native speakers.
I found Japanese easy and a doddle to pronounce.
I find Basque super logical. I did it in school for a couple of years but didn't get to learn much. But I loved how structured it was.
Native English speaker here, and I know both Finnish and Japanese. I found them oddly easier than the I-E languages. Maybe tat's because I was already prepared for "hard" and knew I'd have to do some work. But my brain really likes them, even Japanese's writing system.
@@larapalma3744Japanese is easy to pronounce decently. But it’s incredibly difficult to pronounce at a native level. Pitch accent is just one of the pieces of that puzzle.
@@MilarkThe same oddly goes for norwegian, a germanic language, my native language. It's not that hard to learn, but we have certain pitch accents that change depending on the dialect, so sounding like a real native (and especially someone with a thicker dialect) is very hard to master, normally I can hear someones accent very clearly🤔
(And at the end of the day: some of use are just used to different sounds, that's why some find it hard to pronounce certain sounds, mainly because the muscles aren't trained to make such sounds.)
Basque is also known as the language that the Devil couldn't understand
Is the devil known for being very smart or are Basquers so holy the Devil can't conceive of their language?
I thought that was Welsh 😈
@@EPMTUNESthe Basque being so difficult that even the devil with his immense intelligence cannot understand it
Not so!
Basque sounds like the language orcs speak 😂
The flag is just a Christmas union jack
Actually it is.
It was a version of the Union Jack designed for a political party (PNV, Nationalist Basque Party).
Later, the flag of the political party was considered to be representative for the whole region, regardless how many votes they had.
I wonder why though?
It's the daltonic version, indeed.
Mila esker Euskara erakustegatik!
Google translated that perfectly!
.. unless what you really said was that your hovercraft was full of eels..
@@mattpowellsinflatablebanan6682 Google translate can't translate euskalki ( Basque dialects) but it usually translates standard batua Basque decently.
wow no special letters acute no accent mark Basque language is clean from Spanish
Such a beautiful part of the world. So glad you brought this to us. I would love to see your take on visiting the Isle of Mann, Scotland and Ireland.
I'd love to go back to Mann. I have a friend who is a Manx Gaelic singer. I should get her involved.
@@RobWords If you're in the neighbourhood, hop over to Cymru & do a crossover with SSiW Aran Jones?
Now we need a video about the Basque-Icelandic pidgin language.
What 💀
calling Franco "this rather intense fella" is one the best things I have ever heard
yeah it's quite dark but i giggled a bit about people that actually don't know about franco going on to think he was this angry gramarrian and then seeing his actual history
Kinda like calling hitler an "influential figure"
@@Morbing_Time Hitler actually managed what Franco didn't: Eradicate an entire language he didn't like. Hitler did it by murdering everybody who spoke it.
two is bi?? that sounds a little related
similar does not mean related
It's coincidental; there is an Australian aboriginal language where the word for "dog" is also "dog", which is not even due to one borrowing from another, or from any remote "genetic" relation!
@@jonchius yes. But Basque has many loan words too
@@jonchius Exceedingly dubious. Your not giving any proof doesn't help.
Could be a false cognate or a loanword.
And in parts on Nevada where basque shepherds settled near another language isolate, Wasiw! (Washoe, Native American)
Wow
Bet they had fun conversations with each other
Man it's always a trip to scroll through RUclips shorts and randomly see my hometown on camera filmed by an enthusiastic stranger. Happens more often than you'd think!
My personal headcanon is that Basque was created by a bunch of ancient conlangers that wanted to troll future linguists :P
bruh same, they juat made up by theirself a new language so nobody know what they are speaking about 💀✌️
We should do that more
Rather, we should actually do that is what I meant to say
@@scarletpachyderm You let the secret slip! Now everybody reading this will try to figure out which language was the prank.
Basques are pre-Indo European people that the Romans couldn’t get rid of.
Isn't Basque ergative/absolutive? I remember the first time I learned about that system it made so much sense to me that I started wondering where the F nominative/accusative came from.
It is
But in France they do not support minority languages
Yet Spain gets the hate for actually defending far more than france
bizi euskarak!
Real!
As a linguistics student everyone in my class loved Basque, we used to do a lot of morphology exercises on it. Isolates are also great languages to use for research as you can rule out influences from other languages 🤩 (though Basque does portray a few cases of borrowing due to its exposure to French and Spanish)
This is interesting. Is it pure coincidence that the numbers 1 and 2 in Basque would be the same in Cantonese if you replace the B with Y / J
Bat -> Yat
Bi -> Yi
I'm in the US and there is a small basque community near me, and we used to get some of them as customers when I worked at a cheese counter. When I heard someone speaking it, it sounded to me a little bit like a cross between Fench and Spanish, but really only in accent. As someone who speaks a little french (and lives somewhat close to Mexico and has had some exposure to some Spanish vocabulary), I would be able to tell it was basque Because NONE of the words are in any way familiar. But the accent to me sounds like a mix of Spanish(european), french, and also a little slavic.
Basque was also forbiden in the French Basque Country without Franco. Democratic goverments have also persecuted minority languages as you can see in the UK and Ireland with Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Welsh or Scots.
The Spanish however are far more criticized about it despite the french actually practically successfully purging the Languages (look at rosellon and the basque french regions and compare them to the Spanish counterparts)
@@MiryaSosume Actually you just need to look at France as a whole. Before the Revolution there were many languages and dialects in France, the Occitan languages, the languages d'Oil outside of Paris, Arpitian etc. All of them persecuted and humiliated
@@MiryaSosume The sad reason for why that is is that successful genocides make it so that there’s no one left to complain. Ironically, those who have been more ruthless will be less criticized for it than those who made some half-hearted attempts at genocide and failed. Just look at how no one is upset at the Gaels for wiping out the Picts, although many people are upset at the Anglo-Saxons for marginalizing the Gaels in their turn.
In modern democratic France the Basque language is outlawed, but it is more relevant to mention what a dictator who died 50 years ago did 😂😀😂
Also regional dialects / languages within England, even. Yorkshire faired no better than Scots (probably worse), Cornish worse than Welsh. In reality, every country did this during the "nation building" eras. You even see mini-versions of this in the US sporadically having flirts with English-as-the-official-language campaigns. Compared to e.g. Paris, London was actually not very effective or vigorous with it. I think the thinking was that without a single, reasonably comparably spoken and written language, you could not have an effective coherent state. These even happened in pre-union Scotland, where whatever the Picts spoke in early 1st millennium (presumably a P-celtic) and the Romanized P-celtic of Strathclyde were wiped out.
I just know, that "basque" in basque is "eusquera" /'eŭskera/, or such like this.
In Basque it is called Euskara, in Spanish it's called Vasco or Euskera/Eusquera
@@fueyo2229 How did it end up with a "B" in English I wonder?
@@PatrickKQ4HBD I have no idea, ask the french, English took it from French, and by the way, "Gascon" and "Gascony" (a region in France that before the romans was basque) also comes from the same word (Vascō in Latin)
그들이 진정한 원주민이겠죠. 게르만족의 대이동을 이겨낸...
And the Celts before that
And the Moors,.at some point.
There was no great migration into spain, only a handful of visigoths and suebii, less than 1% of the population, similar to the mongols in korea
@@skyleonidas9270Apart from 700 years of the Moorish conquest?
@@Khangel Well actually the kingdom of Navarra was one of the first to gain independence from the moors, and its northernmost parts were only under islamic ocupation for 100 years and the suthernmost parts for a maximum of 400. Also muslim women were executed if they married christians, and christian women who married moors where banished from christian society, so there was a segregation which made it easy to expel the moors during the reconquest. Genetic studies suggest that current spaniards are about 10% north african, 10% sefardi jew, 10% roman, and between 1-5% phoenician, greek, carthaginian, visigoth and suebii and the rest is native. But this is highly dependant on the region, there are no greeks or moors in the north, there are no suebii in the south, visigoths stayed mostly in the center and so on
High chance is that the Basque is the Early European Farmer who moved to europe from anatolia around 7000bc.
Do we have any way of knowing if Basque came from the language of the Farmers or the language of the Hunter-Gatherers?
Basking in an isolate, I see.
intense is a bit of an understatement i must say
As every schoolboy knows, Basque is a language isolate and unrelated to any other language on the planet. Much like Sumerian. But no one says that the ancient Basques came from outer space 440,000 years ago! :8D
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My first thought here was the Navajo language that the U.S. military used to send codes over radio that the Japanese code breakers were never able to figure out.
We had a Basque guy at my workplace for a whille, and I was talking to him about the other area, which has managed to maintain it's autonomy, called Extremadura. But he corrected me, and told me the Basque pronounce it with a silent X and silent D! So Etrema-Ura, though the A and U must not be separated. Hehe, fascinating.
Euskera!!!
After the president failed to ban Basque, I guess you could say they are Basque-ing in their glory 😂
My understanding is that Basque may be, on the basis of certain vocabulary, a VERY ancient language. =^[.]^=
What makes a language ‘ancient’?
@@torzsmokus What I read was that the literal translation of "ceiling" in Basque was "roof of the cave." That was some time ago, and I don't have a source to cite, but that sounds pretty ancient to me. ='[.]'=
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I'd say 4000 years
@@torzsmokusNothing, as no language is older than another language. All languages are constantly evolving. Some languages may be more conservative, but this does not make them "older". Any linguist would tell you the same. Anyone claiming x language is the "oldest" or "ancient" is bullshitting you. Unless they're actually talking about an actual ancient language
@@lingux_yt AFAIK, there are no languages _without_ an ancestry of at least 4000 years (except artificial ones of course, like Klingon)
Gizon means hombre in Basque.
That'd be a geezer, then?
garcon?
This is a pre Indo-European language. That means it survived waves of mass migration into Europe, survived the Celtic and Germanic waves, and most notably the Roman wave that Latinized the totality of the region. It survived French and Spanish empires. It even survived fascist Spain that forbade Basque. 5000 years later, those stubborn people in Basque still speak Basque. Stunning.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
I laughed out loud.
Not in the minds of many left-wing idiots.
*Generalísimo
It makes me happy that Basque survived the Indo-Eurpeans and Franco. Here in America there is a dark history of language extermination, much of it unfortunately successful. Most people know about the Native Americans, but less known is that there was a concerted effort to stamp out American Sign Language, using the same method. Kids were isolated in boarding schools, and punished for signing, the same way that Native Americans were treated when they spoke their own languages. The boarding schools were originally bastions of Deaf language and culture, but were taken over by those who believed that sign language would prevent children from being able to speak and read lips.
As a Spanish, I love the linguistic diversity of my country
igualmente. algún día en mucho tiempo me pondré a aprender euskera, pero ahora no, que estoy ocupado con mandarín.
por cierto "un español" como sustantivo en inglés es "a Spaniard", "Spanish" sólo es un adjetivo ;)
Love your content. Long live minority languages!!
You are just spreading basque nationalist propaganda:
1. Map in your video: You include Navarre and French territories, just as E.T.A. terrorists claim.
2. Basque was only talked in remote villages and isolated zones in the 20th century: You wouldn't hear someone speaking basque in cities and major towns since centuries.
3. Official Basque (Batua) is an artificial language that is literally getting rid of the original and natural basque dialects.
Please, do a better documentation job before publishing things.
I believe a proverb exists similar to: “When God condemned the devil, he sentenced him to study Basque for seven years.” Something silly like that. Anyone know how it really goes?
Considered a language isolate. One of very few extant languages that have no known connection to any other language.
There are actually quite a few language isolates in the world. Every other continent has multiple living ones. Basque is just the only one in Europe.
This guy is great! Wish I had more time to watch him.
Some say it is the surviving remnant of the population which inhabited Europe before Indo-Europeans came
If the Iberian Peninsula was one of the last stands of Neanderthal, is it possible Basque is descended from a Neanderthal language?
@roberthofmann8403 - that is a very interesting theory. I wonder if Neanderthal shows up in their DNA in a greater percentage than in the rest of us?
I doubt that. But it could possibly be the last language descendant from the languages spoken by the original hunters and gatherers who came to Europe 40000 years ago and were then replaced / assimilated by the Anatolian farmers and later by the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
It's not even certain that the Neandethals spoke at all.
@@egbront1506 I must say I doubt they were speechless. Even crows need a language to communicate against whom they bear a grudge or have become friends with. There are limits what you can communicate just by pointing and body language. When Neanderthals hunted the great beasts like mammoths 🦣, they must have had means to communicate strategies to other clan members or even different clans. The question remains though if they had a fully articulated speech or more of a sign language as suggested in the Clan of the Cave Bear or something in-between.
@@Emiko0807 I'm not an expert but there seem to be doubts that Neanderthals used what we might call a language as opposed to grunts etc.
Wait, the word for two is "bi"?
Something tells me that this is the only word in Basque that actually is seen in other languages, not as a word, but as a prefix.
What about Albanian?
Albanian is also Indo-European, although it’s an isolate within the Indo European language family (like Greek) its still related to French, English or German
But surely "unique" is an absolute adjective, Rob! 😉
I used to have this argument so often at work...
The evidence from the title of this video is that it is a comparative.
I changed the title. You and a load of BBC ex-colleagues won this one.
@@RobWords Disappointing that you caved and changed it!. Etymology is not destiny! But I realise you can't win.
@@barneylaurance1865 But communication rather than confusion is the key, so sometimes sticking to certain conventions is useful.
They were probably plenty of such languages maybe related to each or not, before the indoeuropeans entered europe around 5000 years ago
My dad is from the Basque Country and I am currently in it right now
Greatest number of O negative blood group in the Basque country.
My mom is Basque and she has O negative blood!
@@xubunquin I am 0 neg and been giving blood since 1994 as anyone can have it, but O Negative people can only receive O Neg Blood.
And Down syndrome patients.
I've heard my professor say that the language is old
M.A.R. Barker, or the forgotten Tolkien as he is often nicknamed, attributes his passion of learning and studying languages that eventually led him to create the fictional universe of Tékumel to eavesdropping on his neighbors' kids conversing in Basque to keep their secrets.
rip gasconian the only relative to basque
Forgot about Albanian
Albanian is indo-european
@@Goodwarrior12345 basque is Paleo European, what's your point
@@citrusbros187 my point is that Albanian has lots of living relatives - English, Russian, Greek, French and Hindi to name just a few. Basque on the other hand is the only one of its kind to have survived. Every other paleo-european language went extinct long ago.
Apropos, The Basque flag and Union Jack look alike.
They have similar pattern in the different colours.
The story behind it according to info that I could find is that the Basque flag was modeled after the union jack because the two brothers who designed it believed that Great Britain would've helped them in gaining independence from Spain attributed with this quote "The independence of the basque country will be done with the help of the English". Another source claims that the city of Biscay from within the Basque country had trading ties with Britain for centuries.
As a language maven, you KNOW there are no levels of uniqueness. Something is unique, or it isn't. Therefore, saying something is the "most unique" thing is utterly wrong. (Uniqueness is like pregnancy. Someone is pregnant, or she is not. She cannot be somewhat pregnant. Nor can one pregnant woman be more or less pregnant than another pregnant woman.)
Someone who is more/less pregnant refers to the length of time they've been pregnant. Suzi ( at 7mos) is more pregnant than Bev (at 3 mos).
There is also no such thing as a little diabetes. You either have it or you don't.
@@annabennettreed1477 Nice try, but no. Women are either pregnant or not. They cannot be "sort of pregnant." Or "halfway pregnant." And a woman who got pregnant last month is not more pregnant than a woman who got pregnant last night. They may FEEL more pregnant. But their state of pregnancy is the same.