2006-08-31 09:29:30 · 9 answers · asked by kiko 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Ethnically a couple of the other respondents nailed it. As far as most any reputable anthropolgist is concerned, the Basque are the oldest surviving ethnic group and language in Europe. They're about as close as you get to an aboriginal European.
Politically in modern Spain the Basque that live in Euskadi (God, I hope I spelled that right!) have a sort of quasi federal regime very similar to what is occurring in UK right now with the Welsh and Scottish parliaments. They have a sort of super provincial government that the national (NOT federal) delegates several DOMESTIC powers too. They are generally cultural in nature (ie education, marriage etc) but there are also several economic powers as well. That makes them different in than other Spanish citizens. Spain also has a similar structure in Catalonia (Barcelona) for the Catalonian ethnic minority there as well.
As far as I understand the Basque in France (Gascony) do not have any special political arrangement with the Republic but they have always been less militant than their Spanish cousins who started off their bombing campaign against Franco's Fascists.
2006-08-31 14:17:01 · answer #1 · answered by Johnny Canuck 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Basques are a people separate from both the French and the Spanish, although their native provinces are in both countries. Their language (Euskara) is very unique among the languages of Europe and it is not related to Spanish. The Basques are thought to be among the original peoples of of Spain. Some claim the Basques originated from the Caucuses but even an analysis of their language gives no firm support for that theory. Spanish does borrow some words from Basque, such as "nava" (a depression in the mountains forming a plain).
2006-08-31 10:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Basque people are a non-Indo-European people of great antiquity. Some writers go so far as to identify the Basque as the modern descendents of the Cro-Magnon people who invaded Europe some 40,000 years ago.
2006-08-31 09:37:44 · answer #3 · answered by Deep Thought 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Basque people are of unknown origin, but they are definitely not related to any other nationality in Europe. Their language is totally different from any other language on Earth, and may be one of the oldest languages in the world.
2006-08-31 09:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by stevewbcanada 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
basque are spaniards. the basque province is an area in spain, like lets say, new england, it's not a state but it's a compound of states.
2006-08-31 09:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by adri super feliz forever 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
diverse tribes had diverse basic procedures to conform to the recent language imposed. think of roughly those tribes could have diverse languages, so whilst they tried to communicate spanish they could do it with the pronuntiation rules they have have been given in recommendations from their own language. it fairly is the comparable why french human beings speaking in english sound diverse from italians speaking in english.
2016-11-23 16:29:51 · answer #6 · answered by powel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are half French and half Spanish, had their own country or province a long time ago I think, but don't quite remember what it is that I heard.
2006-08-31 09:38:11 · answer #7 · answered by Sager 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_people
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2006-08-31 11:47:19 · answer #8 · answered by Mac 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_people
2006-08-31 09:35:14 · answer #9 · answered by Danny 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋