The struggle to preserve regional languages
Activists in the Basque Country and elsewhere have triumphed—within limits
Go to the Basque Country of Spain and, linguistically, you feel you are entering not just another country but perhaps another continent. Familiar world languages—Spanish and French—suddenly give way to the otherworldly-seeming Basque, with its proliferation of x’s and k’s, and alien-looking words of tongue-twisting length. Basque (also known as Euskara) is unrelated to the Indo-European family that includes almost all European languages.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “In with the old”
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