The mystery of the Basques
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The ancient Basque culture has survived against the odds. We tour the Basque country to see what's being done to preserve its unique language, history and identity.
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I really admire how since prehistoric times the Basques have always strongly identified themselves as such through the ages and never lost their language and identity even with the strongest political/military and economic pressures and persecutions.
@berryblues please explain what you meant by that gibberish
Agree - it must be extremely difficult to hold on to their own Indigenous identity. But, they are doing an admirable job.
Mexican and I’m 10% Basque 😭 this is awesome
@Adam I also got 10% basque ethnicity. The last ancestor to be born in Mexico and lived in Mexico her whole life was my great grandmother and we had her do ancestry dna test when it came out years ago. It was right before she passed away. Her actual Mexican ethnicity ( Native American tribes from Mexico) was only 20%. 75 of her ancestry dna was mostly European DNA. When I checked the latest ancestry dna updates for my great grandmother her basque percentage was 20%.
I’ve been doing some research myself and it all started with the fact that during my pregnancy I found out I was an Rh negative blood type. My great grandfather is from Spain and I’m currently living in Texas with family from Mexico (Zacatecas by way of Chihuahua). I hope to get a DNA test soon. Maybe we might be related! 😮😊
Same 8% Basque 15% Portuguese 25% Spanish and 52% Indigenous Mexican
Basque culture is beautiful! 🎼 🚣♂ 🌊
I'm an english teacher, studying mandarin chinese... and makes me so sad that I can speak spanish (castilian), english and chinese, and I'm not able to speak euskera.
My grandfather told me once "We used to speak different when was a kid. Old people spoke a language, I could understand it back then, but I forgot it. Adults decided to forget it when we became settlers and came here" According to my researches, that language was euskera, and I've always wondered why they decided to forget it.
Because people assimilate to new countries a lot of time their language and customs are lost over time and replaced by those of the country they live in..
Forced to replace ir
Mira mi niña, no os estás perdiendo de nada.
My family name is Solache my granfather used to to tell me stories of our people this is great
In basque,Solaetxe.
I just found out that I'm 5% Basque and I never even heard of Basque
for a mysterious language.....the words hes singing sound like a combo of Gaelic and miq maq...and the melody itself even sounds like the marine time folk music of novascotia and pei and newfoundland......
I am spanish and I know that part of me come from Euskadi, becuase that is the old tibes that live in Europe before the Glaciar Period. they are the oldest. So we are all partly Basque.
My last name is Basque and I'm really interested in my roots!
@Tbone Steak yes, it does. My grandparents are from Spain. And their last name is Basque. Byeee
BASQUES ARE VERY FAIR SKINNED.
YOU LOOK MIXED AND ARABIC!
@@meta-etherealinfo2445 it’s a spray tan 😂
So am I my great great grandfather was Basque he immigrated to Mexico. During The Spanish Civil War in the 1930's
@I love pork yes 👏
Are these people well known for sailing in Spain? I remember reading anecdotes about basque sailors in my country and this documentary reminded me of it.
Yess!! They finally discovered a book about how basque sailors found America almost 100 years before Columbus. The book is in french, but it is clearly written how they even helped describung the routed they took and stuff
Are you Icelandic?
Basque people? Great sailors. Absolutely
My family is from Durango, Mexico. I'd love to visit Durango, Viscaya!
Bizkaia*😏
I have Basque ancestry but did not know what Basque was until recently. I am excited to learn more about it. Would love to connect with others who are in the same position!
Aliens
@@fightfannerd2078 You are certainly delirious!
Me too.
@@fightfannerd2078we have a comedian here
The songs sound so like old Irish folk, I believe there is a strong genetic link between the two.
i am Irish too, so this makes sense.
TrueBlueEG8 even that dancing looks similar too irish dance
TrueBlueEG8 That is exactly what I thought too!
Irish people came from the Indo-Europeans while Basques are pre indo Europeans
Basque people descend from old iberians. One of first caucasians. Todays "Georgia" saqartvelo. They are that old when civilisation flowred Ireland was still a wild Island. They have 8000+ years wine heritage
Being Basque, its always fun watching others attempt to pronounce your last name 😁
Absolutely beautiful people and language!💜🙏🌻😂. Brought tears to my eyes for some reason..
Estáis en lo cierto, más bellos que los neandertales, joder
"Hizkuntza bat ez da galtzen ez dakitenek ikasten ez dutelako, dakitenek hitz egiten ez dutelako baizik",
Joxean Artze.
txeba Gonzalez Egia galanta
Mr Jm You speak basque
Egia da hori... Hainbat guda egon dira , baina aurre egin zieten gure arbasoek, euskal hizkuntza eta kultura ezabatu nahi zituzten guda horiei , eta biak biziraun zuten ... eta orain, gudarik egon barik ... Askok ez dute euskaraz mintzatu nahi eta hala ere euskaldunak direla diote... lotsagarria da nire ustez
I have Rh- .and o- blood type. I do believe We are more compassionate and interested in the human condition and I am very independent. But would love to meet the one for me. Sooner than later. Lol.
Joder, sino saben escribir, no se pongan a poner garabatos.
Euskalduna naiz, eta izateaz arro nago
I'm basque, and I'm so proud
Imaginate niña, si estos días hay parada de orgullo, hasta para los que les distorsionan el asterisco. Eso es dolor y orgullo, el cual es llamado sadomasoquismo.
i recently discovered my ancestry is basque so im very interested
+Rich Allen Are you O-? Which is your blood type?
Perico De Lospalotes i actually dont know i plan to ask my dr cant believe i never asked before
+Rich Allen Find out. The Basque have some of the highest % of Rh- blood. I myself am Armenian & I find the Basque people very intriguing.
+Perico De Lospalotes Interesting. I am, and my ancestry is from Euskadi.
+Perico De Lospalotes my dad is half basque half Catalonian I am o- and so is my dad does it mean something
Aww yes im irish spanish brit wiv rare blood group..we lov our music dancing..we can do anything..we so clever n spiritual..i don't no why we special but we just are
Yes we Scots and Irish and Welsh, are related to the Basques. Even the way they dance is very alike and so is their music. Cynthia Allen-McLaglen
Just came back from holiday there.lovely area
the grammar of basque shares of lot of similarities of languages of the caucasus. i did read that there is linguistic evidence for a very distant connection to chechen, a people that are native to the caucasus. basques (ancestors were aquitanias, so-called proto-basques) were inhabitants of the iberian peninsula long before the arrival of celts, romans, and other indo-europeans. just makes you wonder if various people spread from the caucasus millenia ago and inhabited europe long before any indo-europeans did. i always think of the caucasus region as being very old.
Fascinating
Oh, great. Basque Country, cradle of ancient warriors and knights. They are less likely to be immigrated by Portuguese and Mooro people, so they have light skin, red lips, high noses, deep eyes, and look more elegant than other autonomous regions of Spain.
Especially, they are a people with a martial spirit and a princely spirit. Typically, A.Bilbao club never buys players originating outside the Basque country. Real Sosiedas as well as 1 opposing team in each Spanish city are royally sponsored vassals.
The architecture, the landscape of the Basque Country and the Basques people are so beautiful.
Reading some of the comments. I guess everyone wanted to know more a little bit about the Basque culture now that they discovered that they share ancestry. I always called my great aunt crazy for saying we were part Basque, 28 years later I find that she was somewhat right. (I still have my doubts about these DNA results though, not entirely convinced).
FREEDOM FOR THE BASQUE PEOPLE DON'T GIVE UP ALL MY LOVE FROM IRELAND
It’s no mystery. The Basques came from Transcaucasia to Southern Europe in 13,000 BC. When the glaciers melted by 10,000 BC, they spread out all over Europe. By 7000 BC, Alarodic Middle Eastern agriculturalists (like the Iberians) had started displacing them in Southern Europe, and the Proto Indo-Europeans started arriving in full force by about 4000 BC. Today the Basques remain only in the Basque Country, but they used to possess all of Europe.
I am basque descendant. I recall my basque father mentioning basques are not european, but older. Basques, according to Oppenhaimer, came directly from africa through what is now morocco. Most europeans came from asia, that is why most europeans speak indoeuropean languages, and bassques don´t.
I'll tell you how the Basque people managed to survive: they always name themselves after place regions in the Basque country. Like Zatarain for example. Therefore no imposters from outside cultures could try to assimilate/pretend to be Basque and uproot the Basque culture from the inside. They would easily be found out. Everyone in the Basque country knew each other because of this, and could easily tell if someone (Jew/Muslim/Roman/Visigoth) was fake, and stole their name. Smart people.
what he says at the beginning is historiaren ontziaren. ship of history. This is not spanish, but is similar because the basque language borrowed words from latin to fill in for words that their language have. the romans lived along side the basques for many years, so many bits of language are of root. Euskara at its core is very unique from any other language. Look at "history" in eng;ish and "historia" in spanish, yet english and spanish are very different and not at a ll the same
I love their culture NEVER call a Basque a Spaniard :)
Guernica - I lived in the french basque country, in the stunning village of Sare. I also know the spanish basque country, the north of Spain.
That’s Right! We are Basque NOT Spaniard or French
@@lorenabaskaranSpaniard, even if you don't like it!
@Luiz Salut Trouduc No os quieren ni los baskos ni los franceses Con el cambio climatico,os vais a quemar todos A donde vais a emigrar?
Beautiful country and culture.
Freedom for the Basques ! Independence for the Basque Country support from Ireland.
Basques did come from some place, they came from the Caucasus Mountains around 40,000 BC. Abhkazis seem to be their closest relatives. The Iberians had Basque words through intermarriage, but they were foreign invaders from the Balkans, related to the Etruscans and the Hurrians of the Middle East. They were related to today's Chechens.
My maternal Grand father, was part Basque.
The Izazagas of basque came to Mexico, and were involved in Mexicos independence movement
Don Agustín de Iturbide es de origen vasco también y fue proclamado el primer emperador de México.
My family are of Basque origin. The language is difficult for me to learn but I’m trying lol
As always, the only way is to practice, brave you!
All Europeans have Basque heritage. They are the Fountain of Europe.
There used to be a Macro-Vasconic Language family all over Europe, which much variation between the related languages. Basque is only one language in this group, the only one that survived. Basque and Cucuteni were only as related as Spanish and Russian, but were related nonetheless.
Basquing in Glory.
Euskal Herria es moderna, Euskal Herria es progreso...Bilbao,SS-Donostia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Pamplona-Iruñea, Bayonne-Baiona...
The people I was referring to are called the Ainu people. They are not Japanese. The Ainu were the original inhabitants of the island of Japan. The Japanese originally came from China according to genetic testing. The Ainu are a very old and rather primitive tribe and have their own language. Google Ainu, very interesting.
same here! we are Basque!
my last name (Ayala) is Basque! so cool. though my dad is from Mexico and I think I had a Grandpa from Italy....so probably in there was people from Spain! lol idk. must of been a lot of immigration in my family......
Amor Ayala Cool! I'm full Basque :p
GOOD WORK...
Me too! I'm so curious about my culture
Gora Euskal Herria askatuta!
Liberté pour le Pays Basque!
Freedom for Basque Country!
Freiheit für das Baskenland!
Libertad para Euskal Herria!
自由巴斯克地区
liberdade para o País Vasco!
バスクの自由
llibertat per al país basc!
Ελευθερία για τη Χώρα των Βάσκων!
الحرية للبلاد الباسك
Свобода для Страны Басков!
Blas de Otero,who was born in Bilbao,was a good poet.To know more about our land,ask me!
Aurrera goaz!
@cali6irl909 Basque has absorbed alot of loan words over the many years from Latin and her daughter languages (Catalan, spanish, occitan etc.). So it´s quite likely that you heard a loan from one of these languages.
Free Basque ♥️
I always thought I was a Ukrainian cat but nope my genealogical research led me discover two basque ancestors from Abando Vizcaya and Ariscun.
The origin of the basques -- Part - 2
"Immuno-Genetics (1997) 47: 37 ± 43
"Copyrights: Springer-Verlag 1997
Some of the seven authors of the paper :
Dr Jorge Martinez-Laso
Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid
Clinical Immunology, Genetic Epidemiology, Transfusion Medicine
PhD, D(ABHI)
Dr Paulo Rodrigues-Santos
Faculty of Medicine - University Madrid
Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Clinical Immunology
Dr Eduardo Gomez-Casado
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion, Madrid
Biotechnology, Cell Biology
Dr Antonio Martinho
Medical Anthropologists, Biological Anthropology
Portuguese Institute of Serology
"Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Jorge MartõÂnez-Laso
Eduardo GoÂmez-Casado, Nieves DõÂaz-Campos,
Paulo Santos, Antonio Martinho,
Henriqueta Breda-Coimbra
This link includes the 7 authors, their photos and their profiles
"Relatedness among Basques, Portuguese, Spaniards,
and Algerians studied by HLA allelic frequencies and haplotypes
Yeah, great, but what did the book say? Can you please extend a Herculean effort and write a three-sentence synopsis, instead of giving out a bunch of credentials which do not shed light on the subject?
--- He/she already did that. He presented yoiu with a link to the full paper. Here it is duly copied and pasted (link at the very bottom) and the selected bits he/she found to be more relevant:
S E L E C T E D
"The GENETIC and CULTURAL relatedness among Basques, Spaniards, and paleo-North Africans (Berbers or Tamazights) was established. "
Notice Portuguese are not included in that African genetic soup... Basques, Spaniards and north-Africans HA HA HA HA
"Portuguese people have maintained a certain degree of cultural and ethnic-specific characteristics SINCE ANCIENT TIMES." -- ie, so the Portuguese are the original white men, the true ANCIENT Europeans and science supports this. The Portuguese therefore must be the original Europeans ("ANCIENT") -- GOOD-BYE BASQUES WITH YOUR BS. But there is more... Read on...
Read this:
"Portuguese and Basques do not show the Mediterranean A33-B14-DR1 haplotype, suggesting a lower admixture with Mediterraneans;" -- this means that Spaniards are north african huh ? HA HA HA HA HA
omg this one is a beauty:
"...Spaniards and Algerians do have this haplotype in a relatively HIGH frequency, indicating a more extensive Mediterranean genetic influence." -- Remember.... SPANISH scientist made these findings HA HA HA HA HA HA
Here comes the punchline, to destroy all basque delusions....:
"Basques and Algerians also show specific haplotypes, A11-B27-DR1 and A2-B35-DR11, respectively, probably showing a relatively lower degree of admixture."
NOW THE LINK TO THE COMPLETE PAPER:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Paulo_Rodrigues-Santos/publication/225705696_Relatedness_among_Basques_Portuguese_Spaniards_and_Algerians_studied_by_HLAallelic_frequencies_and_haplotypes/links/00b4951912a12af2db000000.pdf
It all comes down to one thing.... We're very mysterious and the whole world is begging us to reveal ourselves.... That's all.
Pinhead From Barcelona 5412
LOL
54markl
Why don't you go check the link he gave you ? -That's what links are for.
I may have Basque ancestry my last name Zazueta is basque
From Hernani (Gipuzkoa)
Don´t forget Visigots germanic invasion they were close to 500.000, but many spaniards are mixed with many cultures. People of North -west in Pyrinees are mixed with Basques, Celts, Romans and Sefardi Jews, in the south you have Gypsies and Arabs Too
Da la casualidad de que soy Doctor en Historia y cuando afirmo algo, después lo demuestro, o al menos trato de hacerlo de forma científica y veraz. Un pueblo "misterioso" es un pueblo cuyo pasado no cuenta con fuentes históricas y, por lo tanto, está expuesto a todo tipo de manipulaciones (más que los demás, que ya llevan su parte). Deberías leerte un libro muy interesante titulado "La Invención de la tradición", de Hobsbawm. Aunque seguro que ya te lo has leído, majote.
The entire population of the British Isles is still genetically Basque. Among the distant relatives of the Basques are the Chinese and the Navajos (!).
he the fuck are they in anyway related to the damn Chinese??
The Basque made it to the mainland from Atlantis (Atlantic) as a result of the Great Flood. RH- people.
Very beautiful! Thank you !
i agree
some are jealous of everything we have
Basques are older than Noah, so they must be from Enosh, Seth's son. The did nothing wrong, so the Flood did not harm them.
@SummernlightningUSA actually that goes for all of the spanish iberian since the havent got much foreign genetic influnce in probably the last 10,000 years what has changed i that region is the language and culture. with the exception of the Vasconians aka the basques
obvious to me that there was at least two language groups in eurasia before the coming of the latin/germanic/sanskrit distinctions held sway. what the origin of such a gruop was and how was it different from what later developed is not understood at all. one suspects the basque language was created by a people different from the types who speak it today. it just makes sense that must be the case.
Half the population of the Basques have Rhesus Negative blood , which is very rare in the rest of the world. Im Rhesus Negative too, there are lots of theories about where it came from , but it is just as mysterious as the origins of the Basques.
Same! The research I’ve been doing on it lead me to Basque and I’m thinking about getting a DNA test done. My great grandfather was from Spain so I’m very curious now.
Beautiful. My mum was of Basque ancestry and she loved the ocean.
I’m basque and I love the ocean
@anniescorfano r u rh negetive?
@@DisiLLusiNed316 yes
The Paisa culture of Medellin, Colombia, is all from Basque men migrating there over several centuries. The Paisas of Medellin are all doers, coffee farmers, travel company operators, and founders all kinds of other enterprises. The Basques are most interesting!
Do tell more I appreciate the knowledge
Eso sí que no os permitire, eso de paisa es todavía peor.
In all of Colombia, 30% have Basque surnames, in Medellin it reaches 70% with Basque surnames and many customs and cultural aspects of Colombia and in particular Medellin are due to this.
Hey, I enjoyed listening to Basque, and as a Scotsman, respect the age of your heritage, as Scotland is one of the last cultural identies of Celtic. Here, we call the pre-celtic people that lived here, "Picts" who were probobly related to the Basques, and we still have stone circles made by them and place/personal names.
irish people's closest genetic ancestors are from the basque region.
Look at the Rh- factor, it means the whole of the UK's is closely related to the Basque's. The Rh- factor is strongest in the Basque people followed by the those living in the British Isles.
***** Well I'm English and have Rh- blood, as does 15% of the population of England, which isn't much less then wales, Ireland or Scotland.
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Recent DNA studies show that the original British DNA stock in England is still prevalent above the stock of all the invading forces, so showing the Angle, Saxon and Norse invasions didn't wipe out the local Britons, but rather took control of royalty, politics and institutions. I'm fascinated with genealogy so had a DNA test done which shows me to be British as British could be. I've traced one family line back to 15th c Sywell in Northamptonshire; family name being Darker which was a Anglo Saxon derogatory name for the Britons as they tended to be of a darker complection.
*****
cheeky git
*****
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Don't talk like a cnut. Take a poll in any country and they will be different e.g. the Scots and Irish will poll badly towards the English, whilst most of Spain will poll badly against Catalonia, as the Poles will against the Germans. If you're gonna come on here to debate, at least use credible evidence and not huge sweeping generalisations.
This is my favourite video of the Basques who are Ruisco. Their dance, singing, rhythms, love of the sea, tartans, dress are like the Celts/ Gaels.The Ruisco clades are found mainly in the western side of the United Kingdom and the whole of Europe, which shows how ancient they are. There is even a link to language in the structure of the language to Gaelic. Cynthia Allen McLaglen
The origin of Britain were the Basque people ,90% of the Irish and 70% of the Scots are Ruscio as well.
Yes and most of Europe is dominated by the clades of Ruisco. They are the most ancient people and I also come from them originally.
Very interesting!
@Black Lesbian Poet Well my ancestor wuz black, that I know for certain. I am proud of her and the other people who came out of Africa and went along the Yemen coast to the Indus. She is related to me and many other females who were mutated in India and from there they went around the earth and began to change because they were not getting enough sun, and the right kind of food, so the darker skinned people died off and the pinker people stayed and multiplied. In Australia they stayed darker skinned because we need the protection with this skin from the hot sun. Cynthia Allen McLaglen
As I was listening, the sings sounded very Gaelic.
I just found out I am Basque. Well at least part Basque. Now I have a new language to learn! Yay!!!
Same here :3
Same
What if the company you gave your DNA to decides to behave like Facebook?
@@pennydavis2637 Same here Penny.
How did you found out tho?
I think it's beautiful if you would learn Basque. It is an extremly unique and special language! I really hope you already started :)
I have Basque and Scottish ancestry, it's very cool
Very cool indeed.
Yes man, cider and whiskey go together very wel.
yes the Irish and basque are the same DNA brothers you can say.
No were not!
As a nation, Australia has more of the Rh negative blood (19%, compared with 15% in Ireland - that is, the world average.) As an ethnic group, the Basque people demonstrated 21-43% of the negative factor (dependent on location). The highest percentage is among the Basque- speaking regions of their nation.
@@beth-rg8bm yes we are, it called black Irish because Spanish Men from Basque have Black hair and it's a fact through my DNA through my mother side of the Irish Family.
@@christophercardono6274
I'm Basque and Irish myself and genetically both bloodlines come from different area...does this mean there is no Basque blood in any Irish family... Obviously not... but they are NOT THE SAME!
And yes I'm rh negative A and 99% European!
@@christophercardono6274
Grandfather told me tales of Basque fishermen getting blown off course and ended up in Scotland and Ireland and intermarriage...they were not one race!
That's like saying all americans are Indian because they occupie the same country!
I'm half Basque half Irish ^^ and thank you! :D
Irish and basques we have the same rooths
@@tenzinsangpo2221 about 4500 years ago
@@邵屹文1,000
Brother
National identity and self-determination for the Basque and all nations! I salute the Basque honor!
What the fuck are you talking about
Kraw1989 Dear Kraw, I`ll explain it to you, firstable, calm down please. What Basque Country claims is just to get back its own right of being basques, with an idiom wich origin is still unknown, stolen by Fascists, in former times, and also tortured in the not so far past. Let me tell you something: Nowadays, prestigious british and american antropologists, are still studying about this people. They wonder How, When, Where, Why ...etc. Lesson number one has ended. Have a nice day
1Fireskull run into you in the weirdest places on youtube bro. Lol. Yes, I also agree the basque should be allowed to have their own homeland. I did a DNA test and found out I was part basque, very interesting people.
Brandon Wright Y esa cuatribarrada de detrás?.La bandera catalana-valenciana.
Brandon Wright
Yes. They are our R1b brothers and sisters. If the majority of Basque want nationhood, then I say give it to them. They are a part of Spain from the Spanish Empire imperialism, but historically they had their own culture. Basque independence might be the quickest way of their leaving The European Union empire of Cultural Marxism with its MASSIVE immigration and selling Europe to the world.
As I remind people: Patriotism is rising in every nation of Europe now.
Peace and unity for our peoples!
happy basque-irish descendant from south america: this marine tradition is nice, it reminds me when the cod fishing basques and Saint Brendan visited the coast of Newfoundland... gora Euskal Herria! Éire beo fada!
Greetings and respect to the Basque people, from a country also fighting to maintain their cultural and physical existence in this world despite the odds.
Hellas and Euskera, might not only have that in common !
The independentism movement in the Basque Country is minimal. The majority of them feel Spanish.
@@anaworld4354 not really
@@rubensimon48 Yes, it's true. The majority is not a big majority, but still it's a majority.
@@anaworld4354 no te lo crees ni tu.
The Berber, the Basque and the Gael are the last living descendants of Atlantis. They all carry RH- Blood. ᛟ
I'm so glad that this interview exist. In France I rarely find such as interesting documentary about Basque Culture!
Laura R because france is the most nationalist and imperialist country of europe,a bigoted country
I think they don't want to ignite the indépendantist streak so they rather not insist on regional identity
Actualy it is not even an Indo-European language! It is nearly mirracle it did survived that long! In fact it is the only Pre-Indo-European language still exists!
Amazing land, people and culture, I'd love to learn more about them.
Long live Basques! Best wishes from the Caucasian Iberia(Georgia)!
Very interesting, I want to learn more about my ancestors, my grandfather was Basque.
Bueno, primero aprendes a ordeñar, después a pescar y después de unos tragos el lenguaje Vasco.
There are many Basque surnames in Puerto Rico my last name is Irizarry all my life until just a few years ago people would ask me where my last name originated and it wasn't until I met a gentlemen from Ohio who told it was basque.
That's wonderful that you learned where your family name originated. Maybe you will travel there one day and meet more Irizarry family. It appears to be a beautiful and stable place.
My last name is Legarreta and I would love to visit where my ancestors come from
im half puerto rican and my last name is LeBron, i think its spanish and french but idk for sure. how do you know if your latst name is basque?
Hannah Lebron ancestry lookup
My moms moms last name is Aliaga and it’s basque. My grandma is Bolivian.
Took a dna test and turns out I have Basque in me even though the percentage is extremely low. But my last name is actually Basque which is really cool and I’m Peruvian 🇵🇪🇺🇸
Como es tu apellido? El mio es Gorrotxategi
El mio es Goytendía :')
Corristes con suerte que fue solo un rozón, ahora cambiate el nombre y nunca vuelvas a mencionarlo.
@@EdgarNicaragua Porque dices eso?
Im basque and proud...euskalduna naiz eta arro...je suis basque et fier...soy vasco y orgulloso ✌💪
Basque - Republic.....regards from Serbia.
Álvaro de Bazán He is Serbian,ive seen his profile and there are videos on Serbian.Btw im from Croatia and Serbian and Croatian are really really close.
Republic of Kosovo And Bosnia.
The hypocrisy ...
@@justhold9324 Bonsnia and Albania - both carry names that derrived from illyrian. If there should be countries in Balkan, then Bosnia, Dalmatia, Albania. These names and tribes existed before Christ, before hellenization and romanization, chrstianization and islamization. There is no "muslim" DNA and evenothough a lot Bosnians and Albanians are muslims (NOT all tho!) - their countries are *secular!*
As for Albania; they were never fully hellenized, romanized, nor slavinized. Just like Basque were never romanized and preserved their roots.
Why do you guys have a problem with ppl that refuse to give up their true identities and mothertongues?
@@Mario-hx7iv
Actually not. Serbs and Croats are not "the same". They are linguistically the same, but language cannot reverse or change your DNA.
Bosnian Croats carry a lot I haplogroup (pre-germanic) in their Genetics - the highest frequency, Serbs carry about the half like Croats (pretty much the same as Albanians).
Which isn't only found in Bosnian Croats in very high frequencies, but also in _Bosniaks_ in the same frequency in ppl of Caucasus like Dargins (close related to Avars).
I have Basque ancestry on my mother’s side. The family name is Echevarria. They settled in Puerto Rico.
Echevarria is Etxeberria in Euskera (Basque) and means New House. Most British people have some common genes with the Basques as they were thought to be a major part of the re-occupation of the British Isles after the last ice age.
I am Irish, I am an Ancient Basque. They are my Forefathers, I must respect them. Even my Italian half comes from Basques, the old Appeninians, older than Etruscans.
how did you discover that?
54markl
WE WUZZ BASQUESS N SHEEEETTTTT!😂😂😂
Basques only were in the northern part of Italy in the alps. The boot of Italy was completely different.
@@lebigmac1426 Thanks for this information. I'm o- my dad is o- and his grandfather was from the Italian alps. I'm curious to find out if we have Basque in us or not.
@@lebigmac1426 but basques are from the Pyrenees mountains not the alps 😮
i just learned my dads side ancestry is Basque,hell even my last name gives it away. something that amazed me is how my last name is actually the name of the village in the Basque country,in where the people from that village that left to the new world carried the village name as their surname, so they can recall where their from.Im just amazed in how i always thought i just had Mexican ancestry.my dads side looks so white,gingers and colored eyes.that it help me see why we looked different.
Heyyy primo are you Saldivar?
very interesting . my driver who drove me to San Sebastián today did say the Surnames are usually after Mountains , places of nature etc. This entire area is mountainous , beautiful and well kept up.
Im here because i found out i have basque ancesters through my DNA test.
really interesting to know more about this culture, my ancestors came from the Basque country to Argentina in the early 18th century, it's quite amazing that some of the people that appear in this video resembles quite a lot with my relatives hahaha, I'd love to visit the Basque country someday. Cheers
Just get the fly tickets and go, don't hesitate , you are going to have a very good welcome USANDIVARAS is a basque surname Basque people is very friendly and you will enjoy that for sure.
José Felix Zapata Usandivaras Friendly is an overstatement...let's leave it in 'correct'. Weather is amazingly mild (very good for European Standard, not Mediterranean though).
And the food...........omg.......the food.....!!!!!!!!
javier martinez yes we are very friendly ajajajajajaj....yes im basq
javier martinez ¿Y Zapata también podría ser vasco no? De zapato, como el apellido Elorduizapatarietxe (literalmente, CasadelzapaterodeElordui xD).
Both of your surnames are Basque Zapata and Usandibaras (writen with B not V)
Basque people originated from the Armenians about 4000 years ago. There are over 600 words in the Armenian and Basque language that have same pronunciation and have same exact definition. Ancient Armenians were known to have the knowledge of smelting gold. The Basque people found plentiful gold in spain and named the land Basque or gold. Gold in Armenian is "voski" aka vosconian language or Basque language. basque > vasque > voski = gold.
I’m Cuban and I just found out by DNA that I have basque roots on me among others
Same - a Mexican American
The Basque people are suffering from French & Spanish colonialism just as Berber people are suffering from Arab colonialism. All of them deserve to build their own nations to preserve their own identities.
Basques are Iberian, Spaniards are Iberian.
Djaafar Messaoudi I don't think you know what colonialism is
@@superduperfreakyDj Most probably he does know
The Basques are not Celts. The Celts are Basques! LOL!
+54markl The Basque people genes are everywhere in Europe! Thy are in fact pre-Europeans!
+54markl You are definitely correct, I study Human Genetics in Michigan state. The Basque people are one of the original Europeans, a very ancient race.
+54markl They, and the surviving Celtic speaking peoples left in the British Isles, share the oldest DNA in Europe and are among the oldest peoples of Europe. Had the rest of Celtic Europe not been wiped out by the Romans and the later waves of Germanic invaders, it would be a very different world.
They have the old Cro-Magnon blood, and the Blood of the primordial Neanderthals who married them. The Nanderthals had bigger brains than Sapiens, Rh negative blood comes from him.
+54markl - That's what I call .... excrementos de toros ! ( please translate into English ! ). The homeland of the Celts
was southern Germany and the Czech Republic. The Basques probably came from Minor Asia or the Caucasus !
The Celts spoke a language that belonged to the Indo-European languages. The Basques NOT ! Think TWICE before saying nonsense !
All of Iberians are assimilated to a new ethnicity such as Goths and Celts, only Basque preserve even the Pre-Indo-European identity
I would LOVE to hear more about this. I just left a comment explaining my ancestry lead to us finding out our family was not Native American ( Indian) as we had been lead to believe but instead our ancestor was Juan De Basque brought here as a child & then he adopted a more English sounding name! Would love to give info to my 80+ yr old father.
Many basque people migrated to the american continent. Many people have basque genes (mixed with other genes) in many countries in the american continent. I most likely do. Basque surnames are all over Spain and latinamerica.
@MrDirrtyg some believe the basque we are from atlantis
My great grandmother was from Donostia. I would love to go there one day and see it for myself.
+alex riches come over!
Pthe city's absolutely stunning
As my grandmother used to say " donostia durante el invierno y San Sebastian durante el verano"
He forgot it because his parents came as settlers to southamerica and, for some sad reason, decided to forget about their origins, language, etc. So, as a little kid, it was obvious that without someone speaking around him, he was going to forget the language, even more once he became an adult. As an old man it was so frustrating for him to know the language only in his mind. So sad, but he said this was very common among basque settlers in southamerica.
I'm learning euskera because of him :)