The Basque language throughout history.
And, contrary to Spain. There is no regional autonomy in France.
The exemple is actually the Basque language who is much much more common in Spain than France.
Part of the reason may have been the langauge spoken there at the time. A kind of Iron Age proto-Basque dialect which would have been radically different from the Gaulish/Celtic dialects that existed from Britian to Galatia (Turkey) at the time.
- He means the spot in Anatolia where, after Gauls invaded from Europe in the 270s BC, they were forcibly settled after being defeated by the Seleucids. The spot you're thinking about is a border region between Poland, Ukraine, and Slovakia. There's also a Galicia in Spain. Those Gauls really got around.
- well i dont know if the map is correct but about the "dark ages": It was not so dark, we still have written records of the time mainly by monks and other religious people who keep the ancient knowledge most intact. We know for exemple that in the 8th basques ambushed and killed the rearguard of Charlemagne in the battle of Roncesvalles. We not only know the battle but that the figthers are from a basque political entity the duchy of gascony.
- yes, they do (in Basque country and Navarra). They also teach Spanish language but you can choose to study most subjects in Basque.
- Yeah I hate how ethnic minorities are treated everywhere. Me myself - I'm Kashubian, you probably never heard of us. That's because everyone who held our lands immediately tried to assimilate us into their own nation. Today even most Kashubians don't really believe in Kashubia, they say they're polish, they are ashamed of our language and culture, or at best treat it as funny little joke. When nazis came we got the "privilege" of not being regarded as polish, or kashubians of course, but as stray germans. My grandfather was offered to register as a german, he refused and registered only when they've burst into the family house by destroying the front door, threatening the family. When he registered he immediately got new doors installed free of charge. When soviets came they created this culture of shaming local ethnic minorities, ingrained the thought that our culture is a primitive local folklore that stands in the way of progress. When the third polish republic came, what we live in now, whenever there was a census kashubians were advised against putting down kashubian as their nationality, the people who did the censuses tried to convince us we're actually just polish. Fun thing is that while soviet propaganda made it seem that kashubian people are backwards anti-progress folklore, these days polish biggest, supposedly liberal newspapers say that being Kashubian is a stupid anti-polish trend among young people. Only in 2005 our language has been recognised as a language and not a dialect. Silesians still fight for that right.
- Basque people it's not a different ethnicity of the rest of spanish and french people... Actually people's of that region have been some of the most important characters in spanish history, and they recognised themselves like that. Also when Napoleon invaded Spain they were some of the first on took the weapons to defend Spain. They also keep specific regulations and their own tributary system, that comes from the tradition in the relation between the basque lands and the rest of Spain. Literally is a land of privilleges, were they can keep their specific wonderful traditions and language and keep using as natives one of the most important languages of the world. They have such power to decide how to build highways in all the north of Spain so they are not entering in competence with other regions. Kashubians are not in the situation of basque people. There is no country in all the european union that provides more self government to its than Spain (education and public health system are regional competences, for example), and most of all the spanish people is super proud of having such a rich diverse and plural country. The problem with fractionary nationalism is that if you offer the hand, they take until the shoulder and they are never happy. So maybe this fractionary movements in Spain are the reason why central governments in other European countries doesn't allow any kind of identity protection, because is a way to avoid to have a Catalan problem in 3 or 4 decades... so their success in Spain would mean the removal of all the rest of european regional differences, particularities, etc.
- Basque people are descendent of Iskit/Saka (Scythian) Turks which moved to the todays Spain (Iberian=Siberian Peninsula) just after the fall of Troya B.C.1200. Same of these Scythians Turks move to the Wales, Iraland and todays Scotland (Scotland=Scythia= land of Scythians).
- Dutch too, they descend from the Nyctiborinae, an ancient Turkic tribe who migrated from Wakandakkale (it was one of the biggest city in the ancient world) in today's Armenia (Carcathiocerta) to Frysya in today's Netherlands (Friesland). This could explain why blond hair is very common in Leeuwarden.
- what has Turks ( tribe of Mongolia that came in today's turkey about at 6th century) to do with Troya?
- people from ireland took over Scotland around the year 500..scotti was another named for irish so Scotland means land of the people from ireland.
- Bilbo and Basque Country are one of the richest regions in Europe.Per data has the bigest percentage of middle class with good quality of life after Sweeden.
- Basques are originally Armenians that left ARMENIA after the collapse of Armenian Empire 2000 years ago.
- Offcourse, and we are proud. The difference between, us and Turks. we built civilizations, and you destroyed civilizations.
- but, it doesn't mean that if they don't speak Armenian Language, they don't have Armenian Origin. For. example, part of Druz Community in Lebanon are originally Armenians, Armenian Fatamids, that ruled Egypt 100 years, after Collapse Mamlouks.
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In the late 19th century, English scientist Edward Spencer Dodgson, a well-known scholar of the Spanish Basque history, determined to learn the Armenian language in order to improve his expertise.
After two months of language courses, Dodgson noticed that many Armenian words match words from the Basque language both in spelling and meaning. In 1884, Dodgson published the article “Basque words in the Armenian language” in the magazine “The Basque language.” The list composed by Dodgson included more than 50 identical words: for example, Basque and Armenian “char” (evil), Basque “zati” (verb: separate) and Armenian “zat” (adjective: separate), and many others.
for more, read at: https://allinnet.info/world/armenians-and-basques-similarities-between-the-basque/
- I'm Mexican American with family roots in the northern states of Nuevo Leon/Taumalipuas and on the 23andme test I get Basque County as my top region in Spanish n Portuguese category. The closest last name I've been able to dig up is Ibarra(Ybarra).
- Jenifer Garza yes Ibarra is a basque word and surname which means “valley”. It’s a common surname here in the Basque Country. A couple of centuries ago it was written as Ybarra but nowadays Ibarra.
- I heard once that ignorance has no borders. I have studied Basque Linguistics as many other people. After the bombing of Gernika by the nazis and 40 years of dictatorship being our language banned I worked as a teacher and we moved from 30% population being fluent to 70 %.
- this is not just a theory, Cavalli-Sforza is using genetic material from archeological sites. This has been verified by Max Planck Institute of genetic studies, the foremost academic group. Aside from random modern man genes for 250,000 years in Europe; 3 waves of modern man genes - 50,000 years ago (hunter gatherers, Basque is the remnant); 10,000 years ago (middle eastern agriculturalists, wiped out); 5,500 - 2,500 years ago (Indo-aryan nomadic herders). Surpisingly, the Basque type genome revived 5,000 years ago. People have WALKED all over the world, including the new world down to Tierra del Fuego.
- Altai is the cradle for Turkish tribes... Basques language has more similarity to Armenian language
- It's Bilbao in Spanish, English and many other languages, but it's Bilbo in Euskara (Basque).
- the Basques had our Kingdom the Kingdom of Navarra one of the founding Kingdoms of Spain because it participated in the Reconquest against the Moors, with capital in Pamplona and which was distributed with France, the French Navarra with capital in Pou. My ancestor was Vascon, French Navarro that is happened to Spain, it was Menaud de Orçaiz
- Aupa Euskal Herria, my heart is still there, beautiful country, great people, I’d say France needs to grant something to the Basque people, in Spain Autonomous regions have a lot of power which is a good thing, but in France, because of the fact that democracy centralised the country around Paris and forced people to speak French and nothing else for centuries, Basque country isn’t even a county…. Yet I used to live there and the culture is very much alive….
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Armenian Origins of Basque: a presentation by Vahan Setyan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKXnz9YMa9A check all the comments, very interesting.
Vahan Setyan (MS PhD), author of Language as a Fingerprint, presented his new book, Armenian Origins of Basque in Abril Bookstore on February 16, 2018. He discussed the linguistic parallels coupled with historical, anthropological and comparative mythological parallels, introducing Basque, Spanish and Armenian sources. The parallels are undeniable and statistically significant, refuting arguments of Basque being an isolate and not related to the Indo-European languages. It’s the first book of its kind, dedicating to the monumental research done by Vahan Sarkisian (1954-2011), a Basqologist, Linguist and Honorary Member of various historical societies in Spain and Basque Co
Vahan Setyan (MS PhD), author of Language as a Fingerprint, presented his new book, Armenian Origins of Basque in Abril Bookstore on February 16, 2018. He discussed the linguistic parallels coupled with historical, anthropological and comparative mythological parallels, introducing Basque, Spanish and Armenian sources. The parallels are undeniable and statistically significant, refuting arguments of Basque being an isolate and not related to the Indo-European languages. It’s the first book of its kind, dedicating to the monumental research done by Vahan Sarkisian (1954-2011), a Basqologist, Linguist and Honorary Member of various historical societies in Spain and Basque Country.
Video produced by Vahe Khachatryan.ntry.
Video produced by Vahe Khachatryan.
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