The Basque alphabet is the alphabet used to write the Basque language. It consists of the following letters: An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... Basque (native name: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ...
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It is similar to the Spanish and Catalan alphabets. The Catalan alphabet comes from the Roman alphabet. ...
Basque is a language with no known linguistic relatives spoken by about 660,000 people in Spain and France, mainly in the Basque country (Euskal Herria).
An ancestral form of Basque known as Aquitanian appears in Roman inscriptions in Aquitaine, in the southwest of France.
Basque first appeared in writing in Latin religious texts, the Glosas Emilianenses, dating from the 11th century.
Basque (in Basque: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France.
Basques also make up sizable parts of the population in what is known as the Northern Basque Country in France and the autonomous community of Navarre in Spain, which in total have historically been considered the Basque Country.
However, Basque was explicitly recognized in some areas, as the local charter of the Basque-colonized Ojacastro valley (now in La Rioja) allowed the inhabitants to use Basque in legal processes in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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