Basques
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Tot population | |
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approx. 2.6 million in Spain an Fraunce | |
Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
![]() | 2,359,400[1] |
![]() | 1,850,500[1] |
Álava | 279,000 |
Biscay | 1,160,000 |
Gipuzkoa | 684,000 |
![]() | 508,900[1] |
![]() | 230,200[1] |
Labourd | 225,000 |
Lawer Navarre | 40,000 |
Soule | 20,000 |
![]() | 3.5 million[2][3] |
![]() | 1.7 - 4.5 million[4][5] [8] |
![]() | 1.5 million[9] |
![]() | uncertain |
![]() | uncertain |
![]() | uncertain |
![]() | uncertain |
![]() | 60,000[10] |
![]() | uncertain |
![]() | 102.200 |
![]() | 9,800[11] |
![]() | 5,500[12] |
![]() | uncertain |
![]() | uncertain |
Leids | |
Releegion | |
Roman Catholicism,Atheism,Agnosticism |
TheBasques(Basque:euskaldunak,Spaingie:vascos,French:basques) as anethnic groupprimarily inhabit an aurie traditionally kent as theBasque Kintra(Basque:Euskal Herria), a region that is locatit aroond the wastren end o thePyreneeson the coast o theBay o Biscayan straddles pairts o north-eastren Spain an sooth-wastren Fraunce.
The Basques are kent in the local leids as:
- Euskaldunak( "Basque speakers", uised loosely tae descrive aw ethnic Basques),euskal herritarrak( "natives o the Basque Kintra" ) oreuskotarrak( "natives of the Basque Kintra", an aften mentioned but rarely uised neologism) inBasque
- Vascosin Spaingie
- Basquesin French
- BascosinGascon
Etymology o the wirdBasque
[eedit|eedit soorce]The wirdBasquecomes frae FrenchBasque(pronooncit/bask/), which itsel comes fraeGasconBasco(pronooncit/ˈbasku/) an SpainyieVasco(pronounced/ˈbasko/). These, in turn, come fraeLiatinVasco(pronounced/wasko/), pluralVascones.The Laitinlabial-velar approximant/w/ generallyevolvit intaethebilabials/b/ and /β̞/ in Gascon an Spaingie, likely unner the influence o Basque anAquitanian,a leid kin wi auld Basque an spoken inGasconyinAntiquity(seimilarly the Laitin /w/ evolvit intae /v/ inFrench,Italianan ither leids).
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Several coins frae the 1st an 2nt centuries BC foond in the Basque Kintra bear the inscriptionbarscunes.The place whaur they wur mintit isnae certain but is thocht tae be somewhaur nearPamplonain the hertland o the aurie that historians believe wis inhabitit bi theVascones.Some scholars hae suggestit a Celtic etymology based onbhar-s-,meanin "summit", "point" or "leaves", accordin tae whilkbarscunesmey hae meant "the muntain fowk", "the muckle anes" or "the proud anes", while ithers hae positit a relationship tae aproto-Indo-Europeanruit*bar-meanin "border", "frontier", "mairch".[13]
In Basque, Basques caw thairselseuskaldunak,singulareuskaldun,formed fromeuskal-(i.e. "Basque (eid)" ) an-dun(i.e. "ane who haes" );euskaldunliterally means a Basque speaker. No aw Basques is Basque-speakers, an no aw Basque speakers is Basques; ootlanders wha hae learned Basque can be criedeuskaldunakan aw. For that raison, theneologismeuskotar,pluraleuskotarrak,wis coined in the 19t century tae mean an ethnically Basque body whether Basque-speakin or no. Thir Basque wirds are aw derivit fraeeuskara,the Basque name for the Basque leid.
Alfonso Irigoyen claimit that the wirdeuskaracomes frae an auncient Basque verbenautsi"tae say" (cf. modren Basqueesan) and the suffix-(k)ara( "way (o doin something)" ). Thuseuskarawad literally mean "way o sayin", "way o speakin". Ane item o evidence in favour o this hypothesis is foond in the Spainyie beukCompendio Historial,written in 1571 bi the Basque writerEsteban de Garibay,wha records the name o the Basque leid as "enusquera".It mey be housomeivver a writin mistake.
In the 19t century, the Basque naitionalist activistSabino Aranapositit an oreeginal ruiteuzkowhilk, he thocht, came fraeeguzkiko( "o the sun" on the assumption o an oreeginalsolar religion). On the basis o this putative ruit Arana proposed the nameEuzkadifor an independent Basque naition, componed bi seiven basque historical territories. Arana's neologism Euzkadi, in the regularised spellin Euskadi, is still widely uised in baith Basque an Spainyie, syne it is nou the offeecial name o theAutonomous Commontyo theBasque Kintra.
It haes been suggestit that the ruit oeusk-mey be linkit tae the Aquitanian tribe o theAuscian aw.
References
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑abcdIV. Inkesta SoziolinguistikoaGobierno Vasco, Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco 2008,ISBN 978-84-457-2775-1
- ↑"::: Euskonews & Media::: Kosmopolita::: Los nuevos vascos (I de II)".Euskonews.com.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑"La inmigración vasca en la Argentina".Juandegaray.org.ar. Archived fraethe originalon 12 Januar 2012.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑Mikel Soro/ (1 December 1997)."Diariovasco".Diariovasco.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑"entrevista al Presidente de la Cámara vasca".Deia.com. 22 Mey 2008. Archived fraethe originalon 15 August 2011.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑vascosAinara Madariaga: Autora del estudio"Imaginarios vascos desde Chile La construcción de imaginarios vascos en Chile durante el siglo XX".
- ↑"Basques au Chili".Euskonews.com.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑Contacto Interlingüístico e intercultural en el mundo hispano. Instituto valenciano de lenguas y culturas,University of Valencia,citation: "Un 20% de la población chilena tiene su origen en el País Vasco".
- ↑"Vascos en Cuba"(PDF).Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑"Vascos en Colombia".Archived fraethe original(PDF)on 25 December 2018.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑Joshua Project."Ethnic groups - Costa Rica".Joshuaproject.net.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑Joshua Project."Ethnic groups - Venezuela".Joshuaproject.net.Retrieved22 August2010.
- ↑"Vascones - el nombre (Auñamendi Encyclopedia)".Euskomedia.org.Retrieved22 August2010.
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