Basque language

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Good Essays

    traditions relevant or have been forced to conform to the modern ways of the region they inhabit. The Basque people are a group of indigenous that claim the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains around the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain and southern France for thousands of years. Indigenous people are originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. By analyzing and interpreting their language, communication, religion, transition to modernity, differences between french and spanish borders

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Best Essays

    the national language of his home country. However, a notable number of people speak a cultural language as well. The salience of these languages on the north vs. south side of the Pyrenees Mountains is substantial. Catalan, spoken in northeastern Spain and southeastern France, and Basque, a language isolate spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France, are minority languages. Both are distinct from Castilian Spanish with their own literature, people, and culture. While Basque and Catalan are

    • 1984 Words
    • 8 Pages
    • 16 Works Cited
    Best Essays
  • Decent Essays

    More Autonomy or Independence for the Basques : Yes or No Karlos Apeztegia, a former ETA member, said "As a kid I saw or culture was forbidden and I thought we couldn 't accept this. I became more politicised as I grew and decided we needed to organise in order to change the situation." In the reverse, Nerea Llanos, General Secretary of the PP (Conservative and Christian democratic political party) in the Basque Country said "Talking about a peace process is admitting there 's been a war, or two

    • 1783 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the Basque country (and in Basque communities in the United States), identities are formed in different ways depending on your family background, especially where you are from. Basques living in traditional, rural communities live very different lives than Basques living in urban Basque areas, or Basques living in North America. While there are many differences between the identities of the people in these different communities, they all have their Basque-ness in common. In rural Basque areas

    • 2427 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Basque Identity Formation The Basque Country, although not geographically large, is home to one of the most, diverse, historical and ancient cultures of the World. Euskal Herria, more commonly known as the Basque Country, is located on the Spanish-French boarder and is made up of seven Basque Provinces, three on the French side and four on the Spanish side. Labourd, Basse-Navarre, and Soule form the French Basque territory Iparralde, the northern side. Vizcaya, Alava, Guipuzcoa, and Navarra form

    • 514 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    in my case study of the Basques I will assess whether they have in my opinion been able to achieve this. Map of Basque regionThe Basque region consists of seven "herrialdes", or districts which, for political and administrative purposes, form part of two different more economically developed European countries: Araba, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Nafarroa are in Spain, and Lapurdi,

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Basques Social Structure

    • 422 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Basques are people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France. Some people are still confused as to where they have originated from. Basques are now mainly found in an area traditionally known as Euskal Herria, which is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The Basques language is also called the Euskera. The Basque language is an extremely complex language which has no close relatives anywhere else in the

    • 422 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Basque Region

    • 2632 Words
    • 10 Pages

    The Basque region is in the northern part of Spain and Southern France. The Basque language is completely different from any other language. Neither the language nor physical characteristics of the people are comparable to any other culture, and not similar to French or Spanish. The Basque people are mostly in Northern Spain and therefore are perceived for the most part, as a part of Spain. In 1492 when the Catholic monarchies led the conquest of Spain, they found that the Basque had a completely

    • 2632 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    A Short History of the Basque Country Archaeological and ethnographic findings indicate that Basque [people] evolved from Cro-Magnon [...] in this area over a period dating from about 40,000 years ago until distinct features were acquired approximately 7,000 years ago. Two thousand years later the sheep, not native to these lands, was introduced and horse and cattle farming came into being, as shown by Adolf Staffe. These circumstances made it necessary for the people

    • 3639 Words
    • 15 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The importance of different languages and cross culture communication are imperative when it comes to adequate care for patients in the nursing field. The transcultural framework states that communication is "....a continuous process by which one person may affect another through written or oral language, gestures, facial expressions, body language, space or other symbols" (Giger and Davidhizar, 2008, pg. 20). There are many barriers in nursing when it comes to communication with patients from

    • 1240 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
Previous
Page12345678950